Wild Atlantic Way 8/8 Haven Coast: Kenmare → Kinsale

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Beggars' rents collected at old entrance to Kerry

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Somewhere close to Kenmare, the old entrance into County Kerry once had a grim custom attached to it. Kerry itself was anciently called the kingdom of Kerry, and the traveller coming from Cork passed through a tunnel of about 200 yards cut through the rocks of the Esk mountain, with two shorter tunnels close by. Emerging from that darkness, the scene changes sharply. Behind is a wooded and watered glen, rich and cultivated. Ahead are barren and frightful precipices, and far below a broad angry stream shrunk by distance to a line of white. The wild grandeur stretches for miles, with white slated cottages scattered through the valley and along the hill slopes, many of them with the picturesque limekilns found all over the country. The road descends gradually toward Kenmare Harbour and is so well built and kept that it might be the entry to a demesne. It is counted among the best roads in the kingdom. But it was not always so. At one period the land was proverbial for its poverty and the wretchedness of its people. A saying went that a Kerry cow never looks up at a passing stranger, for fear it would lose the bite. And it was asserted that long ago, at stated seasons, the agents of the lord of the land stationed themselves at the old entrance into the county, to meet the beggars as they were returning homewards from Cork to Kerry, and took the rents of their cabins by collecting the half-pence the beggars had gathered.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from A week at Killarney : with descriptions of the routes thither from Dublin, Cork, &c. (1865), Hall, S. C. (Samuel Carter), 1800-1889, Internet Archive weekatkillarneyw00hall, Chapter 38 · source

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St. Brendan's Well Patterns at Tubbrid, Ardfert

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Somewhere close to Tubbrid is St. Brendan's Well, where people gathered for what were called Pattherns. These were patron day gatherings at a blessed well, held on fixed days through the year. Here at Tubbrid in the parish of Ardfert, county Kerry, the Pattherns took place on the last Saturday in April, and on the Saturdays before St. John the Baptist's Festival on the 24th of June and Michaelmas Day on the 29th of September.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Journal of the County Kildare Archaeological Society. (1891), County Kildare :County Kildare Archaeological Society,, Internet Archive journalofcountyk06coun, Chapter 334 · source

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Dinish Island: O'Sullivan's Punch Bowl and the name's origin

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Somewhere around here is Dinish Island, properly Dine-iske, meaning "the beginning of the waters," though the boatmen call it Dinish. It is richly wooded, with arbutus groves, and you can see O'Sullivan's Punch Bowl there. A rustic cottage was built for visitors to take tea, and bridges lead over to Brickeen Island and on into Muckross demesne, where you can visit the lakelet of Doolah and the old copper mines.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from A Pictorial and descriptive guide to the Lakes of Killarney, Glengariff, and south-west Ireland, including a guide to Cork (1906), Ward, Lock and Company, ltd, Internet Archive pictorialdescrip00ward_1, Chapter 66 · source

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Children's burial ground, Feoramore

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There's a children's burial ground here at Feoramore, right by the road on the south shore of Kenmare Bay. Low unmarked grave stones stand inside an oblong plot, some fallen and overgrown, with trees growing among them. Mass was celebrated here in 1999.

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Lakes of Clonee - angling and scenery

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Coming up along here are the Cloonee Loughs. Upper and lower Clonee and Lough Inchiquin are united by small but rapid rivers, and they contain islands gracefully wooded. Huge mountains look down upon them. At the extremity is a rich tract of alluvial soil, where there is a farmhouse, lived in by a "strong" farmer, who is ever willing to assist the angler. He will lend his boats, lend his flies, and lend, in the Irish way, his bacon, his potatoes, and his whisky. There is no water in Kerry more full of fish. Salmon in their season, white trout generally, brown trout always. The place is little known and seldom trodden. Fair fishing is free, or at least only taxed by the duty of a message to the agent of the Marquis of Lansdowne, to whom the property belongs. But if the angler throw his fly all day without "a rise," the day will not have been ill-spent if he look about him. From all the hill-sides pour contributory streams. "And rushing from their native hills, The voices of a thousand rills Come shouting down the mountain sides." The road to these lakes has its own attractions. The mountains on one side, the bay on the other, and midway in the bay is Dinish Island with its ruined church. A rugged hill by-road leads along a wild valley to reach them.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from A week at Killarney : with descriptions of the routes thither from Dublin, Cork, &c. (1865), Hall, S. C. (Samuel Carter), 1800-1889, Internet Archive weekatkillarneyw00hall, Chapter 100 · source

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Children's burial ground, Cloonee

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Right here in Cloonee is a children's burial ground, a circular space on top of a knoll, roughly nine metres across. The ground is raised and dotted with plain stone slabs, none of them inscribed. In the 1930s Captain O'Connell recorded a place called the cilleanach in Clonee townland, though he had never seen it used. Trees now grow round the edge.

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Ardea Castle ruin and the Killarney prophecy

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Somewhere around here stands Ardea Castle, a ruin on a promontory overlooking the sea. It was once the strong fortress of the O'Sullivan More. The cliffs of shale and sand beneath it are gradually being washed away, and tradition has it that when this old castle disappears, the lakes of Killarney will be no more. The castle sits about two miles beyond the Cloonee loughs, which appear on the left as you come along the main road. The ruin looks out over the sea to the right. Beyond Ardea, the road leads on to Kilmacilloge Harbour and the long valley of Glenmore. All this is classic ground, connected with the name of Froude and the book he wrote in this locality, called the "Two Chiefs of Dunboy." People visiting this romantic region should not fail to read it, which gives so truly the atmosphere of Kerry, even if the accuracy of its details is not all that might be desired. Near here also is Derreen, the home of the Marquis of Lansdowne, who has succeeded in creating a place as near an earthly paradise as is possible. A visitor permitted to see the grounds of Derreen will be astonished at the number and variety of the sub-tropical plants which grow and flourish in this favoured spot. As it is private ground, and not available for everyone, it seems unnecessary to give any lengthened description of it.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Kerry (1907), Crane, Charles Paston, 1857-, Internet Archive kerry00cran, Chapter 55 · source

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Children's burial ground, Garranes (Glanarought By., Ardea Ed)

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Right beside the road here is a children's burial ground in Garranes, set inside what may be a rath. It is a rectangular plot, 14 metres north to south and 9 metres east to west, already named Burial Ground on the 1846 map. Stone wall footings mark the south and west sides, a low bank runs along the north, and a stone-faced scarp drops to the east, where a tree-lined terrace stands outside. The interior slopes down that way, and the graves are marked with plain uninscribed stone slabs, laid north to south. Dennehy recorded the place as a ceallúnach, a children's burial ground, in 1997, and noted veins of quartz running through the sandstone markers.

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Children's burial ground, Fehanagh

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Right here, inside an old rath, is a children's burial ground at Fehanagh in Kerry. It's a raised rectangular area enclosed by the lower courses of a stone and clay-mortar wall, with graves marked by moss-covered upright stone slabs that carry no inscription. Dennehy, writing in 1997, records that this place was used for burying unbaptised infants up to 100 years ago. A souterrain sits near the centre, and deciduous trees shade the interior.

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Pit-burial, Cashelkeelty

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Right here at Cashelkeelty, in the slopes of Knocknaveacal, there's a burial at the centre of a five-stone circle. It was excavated in 1981 and described as a pit holding a cremated burial, covered by a single slab. The burial was in a primary position and was found to be probably that of an individual aged between 25 and 30 years.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), KE108-013003- · source

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Children's burial ground, Collorus

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Right here is a children's burial ground, known locally as a cillíneach. It's a roughly triangular field on a slope overlooking Ardgroom Harbour, uneven and partly covered with ferns. There are no grave-markers or mounds, just one flat embedded stone near the centre.

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Shelter bays of the Kenmare coast

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You are coming through Ardgroom now. This is one of three spots where a traveller can find a boat to cross Kenmare Bay. The others are Colleras and Ballycrovane, and together the book calls them charming bays in miniature that afford shelter from all winds. From any of them you can be conveyed across to Sneem Harbour on the opposite shore, where there is a convenient country inn. The inn-keeper there has a horse and car ready, or a boat if you wish to make excursions seaward or visit the opposite side of the bay. The writer notes, though, that it is a question whether the northern side, the side you are on, may not hold scenery as wonderful and beautiful as anything across the water. The tourist travelling this northern road is on the way round the coast.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from A week at Killarney : with descriptions of the routes thither from Dublin, Cork, &c. (1865), Hall, S. C. (Samuel Carter), 1800-1889, Internet Archive weekatkillarneyw00hall, Chapter 101 · source

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garda station/constabulary barracks, Eyeries

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Right beside the road here in Eyeries, County Cork, there is a detached single-storey building that was a Garda station, built about 1930. It has five bays across the front, with gabled end-bays to north and south, and now it is a private house. The roofs are artificial slate, hipped and pitched, with rendered chimneystacks. The walls are painted roughcast render, with a smooth rendered platband and a red brick string course. The windows are timber sliding sash, in a variety of arrangements, and the gabled bays carry broken bed pediments. There are timber panelled and battened doors with overlights. It stands prominent in the streetscape, and it retains many original features and materials. The inventory notes the variety of window openings and the classical style broken pediments as interesting features of a carefully considered design.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (CC-BY 4.0), NIAH 20911406 · source

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Children's burial ground, Eyeries

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Right here at Eyeries in Cork is a children's burial ground, a cillin, just south of the village. It is a rough-grazed patch with a rock outcrop at its highest point, fenced and kept by the local community. Plain stone grave markers stand across it, and a single cross-inscribed stone sits near the entrance.

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Burial ground, Coulagh

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Right beside the road here is the burial ground at Coulagh in Cork. It sits in pasture, an L-shaped area enclosed by a field fence to west and north and a stone-faced earrous bank to east and south. Many grave markers have been noted inside, and there may be a church site in the interior.

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Burial ground, Caherkeen

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Right here is the Caherkeen burial ground in Cork, a semicircular space on a south-east-facing slope with a commanding view over the valley. It measures 36 metres north to south and 14.9 metres east to west, bounded by a low bank and a stone wall. A ruined church stands against the north side of a dividing wall. Lines of uninscribed stones mark the graves, both inside the church and across the southern half of the ground.

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Mass-rock, Caherkeen

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Right here at Caherkeen in Cork, on the lower slopes of Knocknagallaun, there's a mass-rock where mass was said in penal times. A limestone cross was put up behind the altar around 1975, and a slab on top carries the inscription 'mass rock penal times'. There's a natural cave about 250 metres to the west, known as a hiding place for priests.

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Children's burial ground, Reentrusk

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Right here at Reentrusk, on a slope overlooking Coulagh Bay, there's a small children's burial ground, known locally as a cillíneach. It's a roughly triangular patch, about 8 metres across, enclosed by an earth and stone bank, with a few uninscribed upright stones marking graves. An old enclosure lies just to the south-east.

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Children's burial ground, Reentrusk

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Right here at Reentrusk in Cork is a children's burial ground, set inside the ruined church the locals call Teampull na Dithreabhaigh. Low, unmarked stones fill the whole interior. No names, no dates, just rows of small graves in a place people have long called a cillíneach.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), CO114-021003- · source

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Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb, Allihies

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Right here, on a saddle south of Knocknagallaun, there's a wedge tomb in the rush-covered hill pasture. The gallery runs north-east to south-west, with one upright stone on the north side and two on the south, and no backstone visible. A slab lying nearby, largely buried in peat, may be a displaced roofstone. There's also a rectangular platform at the edge of the slope, used for storing cut peat, and it's likely the tomb itself was used as a quarry for that structure.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), CO114-091---- · source

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Copper mines at Allihies in Berehaven

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Somewhere close to Allihies, copper was worked in the Berehaven mines, here and in the vicinity. Lead was found in that same neighbourhood. The record says these mines are important and productive, and that they deserve to be mentioned first among the metals of County Cork. The metals found across the county that could be put to economic use were copper, lead, silver-bearing and otherwise, manganese and iron. Copper turns up near Glengariff, near Bantry, and in different places out towards Sheep's Head, where green carbonate of copper or malachite was found. It appears near Dunmanway on the north-west side, in several places about Ballydehob and about Schull, not only on the mainland but on the islands, with green carbonate. There is copper about Crookhaven with silver-bearing lead, near Three Castle Head, near Castletownsend with lead and antimony, near Rosscarbery with manganese, and near Clonakilty with lead. Copper is also found near Rathpeacon, two or three miles north-west of Cork, where traces of green carbonate were found, at Knockadoon Head near Youghal, and near Millstreet. Lead occurs at many other places: at White Ball Head, near Bantry in a different locality, sometimes argentiferous, near Leap with iron, near Minane, at Ringabella Bay where it is argentiferous, near Carrigaline, near Carrigtohill, on the coast just opposite Youghal, and near Cary's Ville about three miles eastward of Fermoy. Iron seems to have been extensively worked in former times at Coomhola near Bantry Bay, at Aghadown near Roaring Water Bay, and at several other places on the coast, at Dundaniel on the Bandon River, at Araglin about eight miles north-east of Fermoy, at Tallow, and elsewhere. The works were abandoned when the natural woods that supplied the fuel were used up. The metal, being smelted with wood, was of excellent quality, esteemed equal to Swedish iron.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from A history of the city and county of Cork (1875), Cusack, Mary Francis, 1829-1899, Internet Archive historyofcitycou0000cusa, Chapter 359 · source

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Burial ground, Ballydonegan

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Right here in Ballydonegan is a burial ground, a raised circular area enclosed by a stone-faced earthen bank with a shallow ditch to the south. Many grave markers have been noted within it.

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Desmond's body interred at Kilnamanagh chapel

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As you pass through the parish of Kilnamanagh, you are near the small chapel where the body of Garrett, the sixteenth Earl of Desmond, was buried in 1583. After he was killed at Glanageenty, his body lay concealed beneath an old tree until it was carried here for interment. His head was impaled on London Bridge. The great house of Desmond fell with him. He left a son, James, called the Parliamentary Earl, and a nephew, James Fitz-Thomas, called the Sugan Earl, but Garrett may be styled the last.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from The history of the county and city of Cork (vol. 1) (1861), Gibson, Charles Bernard, Internet Archive historyofcountyc01gibsiala, Chapter 120 · source

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Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb, Killough East

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Right here at Killough East in Cork is a wedge tomb, sitting near the head of a little valley that opens to the sea on the south side of the Beara peninsula. The chamber is ruined, aligned north-east to south-west, with two sidestones under a single roofstone and two large slabs resting against the west end. Only slight traces of a mound remain.

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Burial ground, Killough West

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Right here at Killough West in Cork is a burial ground inside a ringfort. It was not named on the 1842 map. Three burials and some grave markers were noted in the interior.

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Burial ground, Kilkinnikin East

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Right here in Kilkinnikin East is a burial ground, on a south-facing slope in tillage ground. It's a small irregular plot, about 9.7 metres by 9.4 metres, known locally as a famine burial ground and marked out by grave stones.

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Burial ground, Loughane Beg

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Right here at Loughane Beg is a burial ground on the south shoreline of White Ball head. It is an irregular area, 20 metres north to south and 8 metres east to west, marked by a scatter of stone on the surface. Some upright grave markers stand among it, though the south side is being lost to sea erosion.

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Children's burial ground, Knockroe Middle

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There's a children's burial ground right here at Knockroe Middle in Cork. It's a roughly rectangular plot, about 12 metres by 8, partly enclosed by a stone wall on open pasture. Locals call it a cillíneach, a place where children were buried.

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Burial ground, Garranes (Bear By.)

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Right here in this fern-covered hollow, there's a burial ground, roughly 15 metres square. Locals say it was used for burials, and plain upright stones still stand among the ferns, marking graves with no names on them. It hasn't been used in living memory.

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Dunboy Castle

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Dunboy Castle is right here. A house was first built on this site in 1739 by Henry and John Puxley, set beside the ruins of an earlier tower house that had stood to the west since about 1590 and was destroyed in 1602. That first house was a freestanding irregular-plan building over a basement, two and three storeys high, with six bays. In the 1860s it was extensively rebuilt and remodelled for Henry Lavallin-Puxley, a descendant of the original builders, by the architect John Christopher. The entrance front gained a three-storey advanced central tower with a dormer, flanked by recessed bays, a three-storey canted bay to the south, and a projecting chimneystack flanked by lancet openings to the north. A five-stage tower rose to the side and rear of the main block, with advanced gable-fronted single-bay three-storey towers to the sides and a five-bay two-storey block with dormers to the rear. The walls were ashlar granite with a plinth, plat bands, and an eaves course, marble arches and decorations. The tower house walls were rendered, its openings bearing label mouldings. The main block had paired pointed arch openings with marble columns on the first floor. The building was burnt in 1921, during the Troubles, but kept much of its architectural character and its finely executed stonework. It was rebuilt in 2008 and is now in use as a hotel. Set outside Castletownbere, this was the most powerful house on the peninsula throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (CC-BY 4.0), NIAH 20912801 · source

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Siege of Dunboy

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Somewhere around here stood Dunboy Castle, where a siege was fought in June 1602, one of the last battles of the Nine Years' War. An English army of up to 5,000 under Sir George Carew besieged the castle, held by 143 men loyal to Donal Cam O'Sullivan Beare. The English took the castle after eleven days and hanged the majority of those captured. They also captured a fort on nearby Dursey Island.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), en.wikipedia.org: Siege of Dunboy · source

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Ritual site - holy well, Curradonohoe

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Right here in Curradonohoe, near the graveyard around the ruins of Kilaconenagh church, is a group of possibly four holy wells on the southern edge of a ridge of exposed bedrock, now heavily overgrown. They are three large circular hollows, probably natural in origin, with a possible fourth about 1 metre higher up the bedrock. There is no evidence they are still visited regularly, but they are known locally as the Holy Wells.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), CO115-160---- · source

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Mogh Nuadhat names Bearhaven after his Spanish wife

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As you come up along the bay of Bearhaven, you are passing the place that carries its name from a queen of Spain. The Irish Annals tell of Eoghan Taidhleach, called Eoghan the Splendid, known also as Mogh Nuadhat. He was the great ancestor of the most distinguished families of Munster, and the Annals name him the most powerful man in Ireland after Con of the Hundred Battles, with whom he contended for the monarchy of all Ireland. Con forced him to quit Ireland. He sought asylum in Spain and lived there in exile for nine years, employed in the king's army. In the fourth year of his exile the king gave him his daughter Beara in marriage. At length he entered into a confederacy with the king, by whose co-operation he landed a numerous army of Spaniards in Ireland. He put in at a harbour in the south of Ireland, to which he gave the name of Beara, now Bearhaven, in honour of his wife. Immediately on his landing he was joined by his relatives and a numerous body of followers. He defeated Con in ten successive engagements and compelled him to resign all authority over the southern half of Ireland. Mogh Nuadhat was to be king over that southern half, independent of Con. The Annals of Tighernach record this at the year 166, and O'Flaherty's Ogygia, Part 3, chapter 60, tells it too. The boundary between the two divisions was called Eiscir-Riada, and it ran from Dublin to Clonard, thence to Clonmacnoise and Clonburren, and thence across the province of Connaught to Meadhraighe, a peninsula extending into the bay of Galway.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from The diocese of Limerick, ancient and medieval (1906), Begley, John, Internet Archive TheDioceseOfLimerick, Chapter 324 · source

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Morty Oge O'Sullivan shoots Mr. Puxley at Dunboy

What it said · 54 of 54 words

Coming up through Castletownbere, in Bearehaven, where in 1754 Morty Oge O'Sullivan shot Mr. Puxley of Dunboy. A military party was dispatched from Cork to apprehend him. O'Sullivan had fortified his house and defended it until his ammunition was exhausted. He broke through his enemies, but was shot through the heart clearing a hedge.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from The history of the county and city of Cork (vol. 2) (1861), Gibson, Charles Bernard, Internet Archive historyofcountyc02gibsiala, Chapter 269 · source

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Castletown Bearhaven and Bear Island fortifications

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Castletown Bearhaven is a small town you are passing through, with a haven formed by Bear Island that is strongly fortified. There have been proposals to make it a Transatlantic port, rivaling Queenstown once proposed lines to Bantry and Kenmare are constructed. At the seaward entry of the haven stand the ruins of Dunboy Castle, which gave the late Mr. J. A. Froude a title and material for his novel, The Two Chiefs of Dunboy.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from A Pictorial and descriptive guide to the Lakes of Killarney, Glengariff, and south-west Ireland, including a guide to Cork (1906), Ward, Lock and Company, ltd, Internet Archive pictorialdescrip00ward_1, Chapter 85 · source

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Burial ground, Derrymihin West

What it said · 33 of 33 words

Right here at Derrymihin West in Cork, there is a burial ground inside a circular enclosure. The whole interior is used for burials, with most of the grave markers concentrated toward the east.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), CO115-026001- · source

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Mass-rock, Derrymihin East

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There's a mass-rock here in Derrymihin East, right beside the road, on a rock outcrop in scrubland. The ground drops sharply down to a stream on the south side. Local tradition calls it a mass rock, with an "altar" on the mid-section of the outcrop.

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Children's burial ground, Felane West

What it said · 54 of 54 words

Right beside the road here in Felane West is a children's burial ground, known locally as a cillíneach. It is a small rectangular area on a ridge within Berehaven Golf Course, with uninscribed grave-markers, quartz stones scattered through it, and a holly tree standing at the centre. A modern plaque reads "An Cillineach RIP."

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), CO115-151---- · source

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Burial ground, Thornhill

What it said · 40 of 40 words

Right here at Thornhill in Cork is a burial ground in rough grazing. It's a circular area marked out by numerous grave markers. One headstone records Honoria O Sullivan, who died on the 9th of July 1815, aged 3 months.

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Mass-rock, Ardagannive

What it said · 53 of 53 words

Right here in Ardagannive, in Cork, there's a large boulder on a gentle south-facing slope, locally known as a mass rock. It measures 2.65 metres by 1.45 metres and stands about 1 metre high, resting on at least one support stone. The name was passed on by Connie Murphy, a teacher at Castletownbear.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), CO116-027---- · source

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Mass-rock, Bank

What it said · 48 of 48 words

Right here at Bank Harbour in Cork is a slab known locally as the mass rock, just north-east of the pier. It measures 4.35 metres by 1.75 metres and is 0.8 metres thick. In 1988 local people surrounded it with large boulders to stop erosion by the sea.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), CO116-026---- · source

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Curragh castle near Kanturk and Neptune Blood's house

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Close to Curragh, somewhere around here, a castle once stood about a mile from Kanturk. It was said to have belonged to the Mac Auliffs. The Annals of Loch Cé record that in 1510, Garrett, Earl of Kildare, marched from Carraig Cital in county Limerick and captured the castle of Ceann-tuirc. The castle at Curragh may be the one those annals refer to. The people of Kanturk have a legend for their name. They say O'Donoghue chased a great boar from Lough Lein in Killarney and killed it where the rivers Ealla and Dalua meet. A writer in the Transactions of the Ossianic Society connected this to boar worship, noting that legends of Fionn's battles with boars cluster at river junctions considered sacred in Hindostan. Dr. Joyce offers a simpler origin. He says the name shows the little hill near the town must have been a resort of boars. Ceann-tuirc means boar's hill, not boar's head as is usually supposed. The imposing ruins of the present Kanturk castle are a different place. Tradition says Queen Elizabeth, when she heard of the great strength of the castle MacDonogh was building, ordered him not to complete it. It came to be called MacDonogh's Folly. On the site of the old castle at Curragh, Neptune Blood built a house early in the century.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society (1892), Cork Historical and Archaeological Society, Internet Archive journalofcorkhisv21896cork, Chapter 192 · source

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Cataract of Adrigoll

What it said · 144 of 144 words

Somewhere around here, the cataract of Adrigoll falls down the side of Hungry Mountain. A traveller once stood on the southern ridge of mountain on a fine clear March day and looked across. To the east, Mangerton rose in dark and lofty massiveness. To the left of it, M'Gillicuddy's Reeks, their points piercing the clouds, leaving you to guess at their mysterious altitudes. Nearer still, to the north-west, Hungry Mountain rose like an embattled wall, and down the mural descent, as relieved from its black ground, fell the cataract of Adrigoll in a perpendicular column of 800 feet. Nearer again, facing north, the Sugar-loaf mountain, almost as white in its quartzose formation as crystallized sugar. Directly below lay the inner harbour of Bantry, protected and divided from the outer bay by the green island of Whiddy, and on that placid water were studded isles.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Guide to Killarney and Glengariff, with six engravings (1834), , Internet Archive guidetokillarney00dubliala, Chapter 7 · source

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Adrigole Garda Síochána Station

What it said · 165 of 165 words

Detached L-plan four-bay two-storey Garda station, built about 1930, having projecting bay to west. Hipped slate roofs having rendered chimneystacks with cast-iron and uPVC rainwater goods. Painted rendered walls with platband and rendered plinth. Square-headed openings with six-over-six timber sliding sash windows, concrete sills and raised limestone surrounds (ground floor). Square-headed opening with tripartite four-over-four timber sliding sash windows and concrete sill. Square-headed door opening with timber panelled door, limestone step and raised limestone surround supporting entablature. Outbuildings to rear (north-west). Rendered walls with piers and wrought-iron gates to front. Following the establishment of the Irish Free State, the government undertook a public building campaign, and many school and Garda stations were built throughout from the 1930s to 50s. This purpose-built Garda Station is typical of the high quality design and materials which characterised the buildings of the Board of Works at the time. Essentially classical in inspiration, the portions and limestone dressings create an imposing building, yet one which sits comfortably in its setting.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (CC-BY 4.0), NIAH 20911605 · source

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Burial ground, Ballynakilla (Barrymore By., Ballycurrany Par.)

What it said · 40 of 40 words

There is a burial ground right here at Ballynakilla. The 1842 map calls it a burial ground for children. It sits in pasture, a rectangular plot enclosed by a low stone wall, with many grave markers, especially toward the west.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), CO117-001---- · source

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Lord Dunraven's house on Garinish Island

What it said · 199 of 199 words

As you come near Garinish Island, a mile northwest of Parknasilla, you are approaching a place where Lord Dunraven has a house. The island sits in a stretch of coast where the scenery shifts. When Sneem is reached, wooded promontories and islands come into view, and the landscape changes its character entirely. The little village of Sneem is built in irregular form with a fine open space, of the ordinary character, and the chief interest centres round the chapel and bridge. Two miles east from Sneem is Parknasilla, meaning the meadow of willows, and the residence of a former bishop of Limerick, now turned into an hotel. The view from the Southern Hotel, a modern structure built in a commanding position, is attractive from the combination of wood and sea and mountain which meets the eye at every point. To the west lies Sherky Island, between which and the mainland is a good anchorage, where His Majesty's destroyer flotilla frequently lies. And a mile to the northwest is Garinish Island itself, where Lord Dunraven's house stands surrounded by a variety of heaths and shrubs which make the resemblance to the Riviera of this secluded quarter more marked than ever.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Kerry (1907), Crane, Charles Paston, 1857-, Internet Archive kerry00cran, Chapter 57 · source

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Glengarriff House Hotel

What it said · 152 of 152 words

Right beside the road here are the ruins of Glengarriff House Hotel. It was built by Colonel Simon White, brother of the first Earl of Bantry, at the end of the eighteenth century. The main block is a detached nine-bay two-storey house with a pair of full-height bows, built about 1800. A rectangular-plan castellated tower with a bartizan stands to the south-west, and a circular tower rises at the north-east corner. A two-storey wing attaches to a five-stage circular tower, set at an angle to the main block, and ends in a three-stage tower with a battered base, joined to an ogee-headed carriage arch with a flanking tower. The walls are rubble limestone, with remains of lined-and-ruled, roughcast and smooth render. Later it became a hotel. Its guests included Yeats, Thackeray, and Synge. It is now in poor condition, but it keeps much of its original character and shows considerable architectural diversity.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (CC-BY 4.0), NIAH 20910501 · source

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Megalithic tomb - unclassified, Ardaturrish More

What it said · 102 of 102 words

Right here in Ardaturrish More, on a flat-topped knoll overlooking Glengarriff Harbour, there's a megalithic tomb the locals call the altar. What remains is a single chamber: two parallel upright stones holding up a rounded boulder, shaped like an inverted triangle with its apex pointing down into the space beneath. The roofstone is about 1.6 metres by 1.8 metres, and the gap below it is just 0.6 metres high. It's an odd hybrid — the capstone resembles those used for boulder-burials, but the supporting stones are more typical of a megalithic tomb. There's another megalithic structure just 2 metres to the north.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), CO105-057---- · source

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Ice crossing Bantry Bay to Whiddy Island and Dunnamark

What it said · 205 of 205 words

Somewhere close to Ardnagashel, the signs of ancient ice are written in the rock. This was ice that came down from the Kerry side, across the mountain ridge dividing Cork from Kerry. Its scorings run from the col at the head of the Coomhola valley to near Kilmakilloge harbour, a distance of 17 miles, and likely further. The ice completely submerged that ridge. It overflowed Knockbwee, 2321 feet, the highest point, leaving its marks in four places east and south-east of the summit, only 90 feet below the top. It overflowed Knockowen, 2169 feet, near Kilmakilloge harbour. It crossed the spur running towards Adragole harbour, close past Hungry Hill, 2251 feet, near Adragole. The ice that entered the upper part of Bantry Bay crossed the bay itself. Its traces are on the east side of Glengariff harbour, on Whiddy Island, and near Dunnamark, 1 mile north of Bantry. Some of it even turned at the head of the bay to flow inland towards the north-east. That is what happened here. At Ardnagashel the ice had already turned somewhat. By the time it reached Snave it had swung fully into that inland direction. The deflection was only local, caused by the general shape of the land.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from A history of the city and county of Cork (1875), Cusack, Mary Francis, 1829-1899, Internet Archive historyofcitycou0000cusa, Chapter 363 · source

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Ballylicky Bridge road junction

What it said · 175 of 175 words

You are coming into Ballylickey, on the road that skirts the harbour and the head of Bantry Bay. An Irishman once called this road, in the words of the guidebook, "the most windingest in creation." The cyclist never knows what may be round the next corner, pigs, cows, or coaches, so it is well to be wary. The views of the bay are pretty but call for no remark. About a mile and a half back you crossed the Coomhola river at Snave Bridge, where a fine level road runs northward to Kilgarvan. Now several roads meet at Ballylicky Bridge. One, not recommended for cyclists, follows first the Coomhola and then the Slaheny river to Kilgarvan, 24 miles away. Another follows the river Owvane eastward to Keimaneigh and Gougane Barra, and so to Macroom and Cork. The coaches that run this route start from the Eccles, calling at the Belle Vue and Roche's on the way, covering ten and a half miles to Bantry. The main road continues round the bay for another four miles.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from A Pictorial and descriptive guide to the Lakes of Killarney, Glengariff, and south-west Ireland, including a guide to Cork (1906), , Internet Archive pictorialdescrip00unse_1, Chapter 62 · source

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Reendisert Court

What it said · 96 of 96 words

Right beside the road here at Ballylicky are the ruins of Reendisert Court, a fortified house built about 1620 by Owen O'Sullivan Beara. It was a detached T-plan building, five bays across, two storeys with attic and over basement, with defensive machicolations and tall chimneystacks that still give it a dominating presence in the landscape. It was nearly destroyed during the Parliamentarian War of Cromwell in the 1650s, but it remained inhabited until the late twentieth century. The east section was later converted to use as a country house, while the west section became farm buildings.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (CC-BY 4.0), NIAH 20910514 · source

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Ballylicky ford of the flag-stone

What it said · 57 of 57 words

Somewhere close to Ballylicky, on the road from Glengarriff to Bantry, the Irish name Belatha-lice means the ford-mouth of the flag-stone. Anyone who has seen the spot will acknowledge the name fits. Other places called Bellanalack take their names from similar fords. A rough shallow crossing where a river spreads over craggy ground was often called Scairbh.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from A history of the city and county of Cork (1875), Cusack, Mary Francis, 1829-1899, Internet Archive historyofcitycou0000cusa, Chapter 396 · source

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St. Cannera of Bantry and her vision of fiery towers

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As you pass through Bantry, in Cork, you are in the country of Cannera, a virgin saint who made her hermitage in her own land. One night after vespers, while she was at her prayers, she saw all the churches of Ireland, and a tower of fire rising out of every one of them up to heaven. The fire that rose from Inis Cathaigh was the largest, the highest, and the most brilliant of all, and rose most directly heavenward. On seeing this she said, "that is the beautiful church, and it is to it I will go, that my resurrection may be out of it." She prayed that she might not lose sight of that tower of light, but that like the tower of fire that led the children of Israel through the wilderness, it might lead her to this place. God granted her prayer. She set out at once, with no guide but the blazing tower of fire, which burned without ceasing, day and night, until she reached it. When she came to the water at Limerick, she went on foot over the water as if on dry ground, and reached the shore at Inis Cathaigh at early dawn the next morning. St. Senan, knowing this, came to the shore to meet her.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from A history of the city and county of Cork (1875), Cusack, Mary Francis, 1829-1899, Internet Archive historyofcitycou0000cusa, Chapter 431 · source

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Burning of O'Sullivan Beare's house and massacre at Bantry

What it said · 118 of 118 words

As you pass through Bantry, this is where O'Sullivan Beare's house stood before the English party of the county burned it. They did not stop at the house. They burned homes across the whole county and killed men, women, and children, forcing many back into their burning houses to die there. Among the dead were Thomas de Bucke, a cooper about 80 years old, and his wife, who was near the same age. The same garrison went on into the neighbouring Decies country, where they murdered above 3000 people and led 100 labourers prisoner to Cappoquin. There they tied them by couples and cast them into the river to drown. This was before any rebellion began in Munster.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from A history of the city and county of Cork (1875), Cusack, Mary Francis, 1829-1899, Internet Archive historyofcitycou0000cusa, Chapter 296 · source

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The desperate defence at Bantry/Glengarriff

What it said · 189 of 189 words

Coming through Bantry in Cork, you are passing ground where O'Sullivan fought in 1602, amid his own rocks, bogs and woods, in the face of his wife, children and people. The battle was for the defence of the cattle, their only subsistence, their all. Through the whole Munster war, never was a field so desperately contested. From rock to rock and ridge to ridge the Irish suffered the assault of the English, until the well-armed and fearless assailants carried one position after another, and the O'Sullivans gave way and scattered over the hills, like sheep, leaving their all a prey to the spoiler. Then Tyrrel, finding the left of his position on Slievelker turned by Wilmot, perceived the game was up in Munster. Hopeless of further Spanish aid, he retreated through Kerry, Limerick, Ormond and Ely O'Carroll until he reached his own country with all his partisans. O'Sullivan still clung with craving hope to his native rocks. But winter coming on, famine stared him in the face, for Wilmot had wasted all Bear, Bantry and the whole of Kerry. Not a cow, garran, goat or sheep did he leave.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Sketches in Ireland: Descriptive of Interesting Portions of the Counties of Donegal, Cork, and Kerry (1839), Caesar Otway, Internet Archive sketchesinirela00otwagoog, Chapter 129 · source

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Burial ground, Kilnaruane

What it said · 55 of 55 words

Right here at Kilnaruane in Cork is a burial ground within an early ecclesiastical enclosure, a rectangular area bounded by an earthen bank. There are no grave markers. Local tradition calls it a famine burial ground and a place for burying unbaptised children. A bullan stone, a cross fragment and architectural fragments lie within it.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), CO118-031002- · source

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Burial ground, Abbey

What it said · 59 of 59 words

This is the burial ground right beside the road, overlooking Bantry Bay. It started as a rectangular plot shown on the 1842 map, and was later enlarged in 1902 and again in 1944. The earliest gravestones, from the 19th century, sit in the original part at the centre. The site of a Franciscan friary stood on the north-west side.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), CO118-030001- · source

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Mass-rock, Beach

What it said · 60 of 60 words

Right here at Beach in Cork is a Mass-rock, reported by archaeologist Tony Miller in February 2012. He described it as a man-made altar set against a vertical, north-facing rock face, a two-tier altar supported by dry stone walling. It is adorned with many statues and votive offerings, and a holy well sits about 3 metres from its western end.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), CO118-020001- · source

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Franciscan abbey ruins near Bantry

What it said · 89 of 89 words

Coming up through Durrus now. Downes wrote in 1699 that St. Faughnan was the patron saint of this parish. He noted ruins of a Franciscan abbey standing by the sea not far from Bantry, and it was the only religious house in the barony of Bere and Bantry. He added that Humphrey Sullivan was the Popish priest of this parish and of Kilcrohane, and had been there about 12 years. All the inhabitants were Papists. Downes recorded that no Papists were allowed to live within the walls of Bandon.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from A history of the city and county of Cork (1875), Cusack, Mary Francis, 1829-1899, Internet Archive historyofcitycou0000cusa, Chapter 186 · source

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Castle - tower house, Rossmore (Carbery West (W.D) By.)

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Right beside the road here are the fragmentary, ivy-clad remains of a tower house on the north shore of Dunmanus Bay. The north wall stands to three storeys, with short returns of the east and west walls. It was probably an O'Mahony castle, later passed to the MacCarthy Muclaghs. You can still see a blocked pointed-arch doorway on the ground floor, part of a stairwell, and gun loops splaying downwards from the second floor on the outside of the north wall.

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Tullig break maintained for Duhallow Hunt

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Somewhere close to Tullig, the Duhallow Hunt Club maintained a break, a constructed barrier used in fox hunting. The club paid Deloohery for work on the Tullig break in 1805. They had earlier paid J. G. Cookery for the same break for the years 1787 and 1786. Beyond those ledger entries, nothing more of its story survives.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society (1892), Cork Historical and Archaeological Society, Internet Archive journalofcorkhisv21896cork, Chapter 37 · source

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Burial ground, Rosskerrig

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Right beside the road here is the old burial ground at Rosskerrig in Cork. It sits on an east-facing slope, marked on the 1842 map, a rectangular plot 31 metres by 26 metres. A stone field fence partly encloses it on three sides, and there are many grave markers inside.

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Seefin mountain summit panorama

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As the road climbs through Seefin, you're on one of the finest stretches of coastline driving in the southwest. The sea stays close at hand nearly all the way, and the route threads past a succession of pretty coves, with fine views across Dunmanus Bay toward Mount Gabriel, rising to 1,339 feet, and the rugged coastline running out to Three Castle Head and Mizen Head. At Ahakista, about 12 miles from Bantry, a good hotel stands on the shore of Dunmanus Bay. Beyond it the road reaches the sequestered village of Killcrohane, then turns and begins the steep ascent of Seefin, which rises to 1,136 feet. The guidebook wonders how the horse manages to drag the car up, and suggests tourists will probably be glad to stretch their legs, since the road winds so much that a scrambler by path has only about half the distance to go. The backward view is magnificent, but it is surpassed, if the mountain be free from mist, by what opens in front when the summit is reached. The whole stretch of Bantry Bay lies before you, certainly one of the finest in the world. Across the water is the strongly fortified Bear Island, sheltering the harbour and town of Castletown Bearhaven. Behind the island tower the Slieve Miskish and Caha Mountains. To westward is the boundless ocean, and eastward, as the road turns and slowly descends, there is a sight of the bay as far as Whiddy Island. The road during the first part of the homeward journey must be something like a thousand feet above the sea, which it directly overhangs. Bantry Bay is twenty-one miles long and from six to eight wide, affording safe anchorage for ships of the largest tonnage, with a depth of water at the entrance of about forty fathoms.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Pictorial and descriptive guide to the Lakes of Killarney, Glengariff, and south-west Ireland, including a guide to Cork. (1906), Ward, Lock and Company, ltd, Internet Archive pictorialdescrip00ward_0, Chapter 75 · source

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signal tower, Dromnea

What it said · 76 of 76 words

Right beside the road here at Dromnea in Cork stands a freestanding signal tower, built about 1805 and now disused, with rubble limestone walls and a crenellated parapet. It was one of an extensive network of signal towers built along the Irish coast in anticipation of a French invasion. The system was doomed to failure, as the British had not taken the wet and misty climate of the west coast into consideration, which obscured the signals.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (CC-BY 4.0), NIAH 20912907 · source

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Ritual site - holy well, Dromnea

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Right here at Dromnea in Cork is a holy well, just a small amount of water gathered under a rock on a rugged slope. It does not seem to be in holy use, but it was known as Tober na n-Duanairidhe, the well of the poets.

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Castle - tower house, Farranamanagh

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Right here is Farranamanagh tower house in Cork, a rectangular tower on a low ridge overlooking Ferranamanagh Lough on the north shore of Dunmanus Bay. It belonged to the O'Daly bardic clan. Only the much-ruined ground floor survives, with a central opening in the north wall that was probably the door.

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O'Mahony territory in West Carbery

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Somewhere around here the O'Mahonys held sway long before the English ever set foot in Ireland. They were the Ui-Eathach-Mumhan, and they wrested this western portion of territory from the O'Driscolls, the Dairinne, or Corca Laidhe as they were known. The land was called Fonn-Tartharach, meaning West-land, or Trahagh. It took in the parishes of Kilmoe, Scoole, Kilcrohane, Durris, Kilmaconoge, and Caheragh, all in the barony of West Carbery. After the English invasion, the pressure on these lands came from several directions. The Barrys encroached from the east. The O'Sullivans, who had been seated at Cnock Raffonn and Clonmel in Tipperary, were driven from there in 1192. They settled in the mountains of Cork and Kerry, and wrested from the Corca Laidhe the territory now forming the baronies of Beare and Bantry. Around the same period, the O'Donovans, O'Collins and others, who had lived in the barony of Coshma along the river Maigue in Limerick, were driven out by the Fitzgeralds. They settled in Cork and took a considerable portion of the northern part of Corca Laidhe territory. The O'Donovans brought their tribe name Cairbre from the banks of the Maigue to south of the Bandon, where it is still retained in the four baronies of Carbery. The Corca Laidhe, though diminished, stayed independent of their new neighbours until 1232. In that year Gormac Gott, the third son of Mac Carthaigh Mor, acquired dominion over the entire region, the four baronies of Carbery. The Annals of Innisfallen, the old copy preserved in the Bodleian Library, noted the event briefly.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from A history of the city and county of Cork (1875), Cusack, Mary Francis, 1829-1899, Internet Archive historyofcitycou0000cusa, Chapter 425 · source

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The floating islands beneath the angel's footmark

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As the road nears Mount Gabriel in Cork, you're coming into a hill with a strange tale attached to it. The story goes that an angel, wishing to see the land Saint Patrick had promised to bestow forever on the Virgin, came down and perched on the western peak of the mountain. The mark of his standing is there to this day. His toes are branded on the rock as plain as if you clasped your four fingers and thumb upon a sod of drying turf. Just under that blessed mark lies a jewel of a lake, round as a turner's bowl and alive with trout. There are islands on it that float up and down, east and north and south, drifting across the water. But every Lady-day they come floating to the western point, and there they lie fixed under the crag that holds the track of the angel's foot. It was told to the traveller as he rowed past two long islands that sheltered the entrance of the bay of Skull, until he was abroad on what appeared to him like the great Western Ocean, a noble expanse stretching coastward east and west. cites: [105944]

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Sketches in Ireland: Descriptive of Interesting Portions of the Counties of Donegal, Cork, and Kerry (1839), Caesar Otway, Internet Archive sketchesinirela00otwagoog, Chapter 75 · source

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Mount Gabriel lake legend

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[121454] The ocean with its tales of shipwrecks and piracies, the land with its legends and traditions, afford themes to fill folios of interest and excitement; every castle (of which there remain the ruins of many) has its story of bold adventure. The lakes, too, are fertile of legends: for examples — that on the summit of Mount Gabriel, with its eternal serpent and depth that has never been fathomed; Loughdrine, where on a certain day in eveiy year the islands used to dance merrily, change places, and shift from one side to the other from sunrise to sunset; Ballinlough, where the fairies keep nightly guard, protecting the passage that leads from the ancient rath that borders it to the bottom, where flourishes the Thierna-na-oge — " the land of perpetual youth." The stranger will, in short, find, wherever he travels in this wild and comparatively primitive neighbourhood, a rich abundance to interest, excite, and amuse, and not a little to inform and instruct. And so, by this Coast Route, the Tourist arrives at Bantiy. A brief sojourn here will suffice: it will be recompensed principally by the views to be obtained from the summits of adjacent hills, or by a sail across the bay.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from A week at Killarney : with descriptions of the routes thither from Dublin, Cork, &c. (1865), Hall, S. C. (Samuel Carter), 1800-1889, Internet Archive weekatkillarneyw00hall, Chapter 22 · source

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Workhouse, Cooradarrigan

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Right beside the road here at Cooradarrigan in Cork are the remains of a walled enclosure, roughly 170 by 190 metres, with a stream running through it. Two ruined two-storey structures stand at right angles to each other, divided by a stone-faced stream channel. A burial ground lies to the east. It functioned as a hospital until it was burnt in 1921.

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Mass-rock, Cooradarrigan

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Right beside the road here is a fallen stone in pasture, locally said to be a mass rock. The record notes it sits south-west of some boulder burials. That is all the inventory tells us about this place.

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Schull parish overwhelmingly Catholic, no Bible

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As you come through Skull in Cork, here is what Downes found in 1699. Skull parish had about four Protestant families and about four hundred Catholic families. Daniel Carthy was the Popish priest of the eastern part of the parish. He had been there since before the late troubles. There was no glebe in the parish, no registry-book, no Bible, and no Common Prayer book. The imbalance was stark. Four Protestant families against four hundred Catholic ones, and the parish church lacked even the basic books. Downes noted all of this in his survey. In the neighbouring parish of Kilmoe there were ruins of a chapel at the west end of the town, dedicated to St. Mullagh. The church of Kilmoe was dedicated to St. Briana, also called Brandon, whose festival was observed there. Kilmoe had about nine Protestant families and two hundred Catholics. Teige Coghlen was the Popish priest of Kilmoe and of the western part of Skull, and he had been there about eight years. A young Irishman, a Papist, taught school about the middle of that parish.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from A history of the city and county of Cork (1875), Cusack, Mary Francis, 1829-1899, Internet Archive historyofcitycou0000cusa, Chapter 187 · source

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Belief in miraculous cures from the priest's grave clay at Skull

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As you pass through Skull in Cork, locals once believed a priest buried here worked miracles. He was known for curing ague, rheumatism, sore eyes, and falling sickness. Yet people questioned whether he was truly an austere man, asking if he denied himself daily and carried his cross, comparing him to Saint Jerome or Saint Anthony.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Sketches in Ireland: Descriptive of Interesting Portions of the Counties of Donegal, Cork, and Kerry (1839), Caesar Otway, Internet Archive sketchesinirela00otwagoog, Chapter 95 · source

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Religious Demography of Skull Parish

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As the road brings you through Skull in Cork, the parish tells its own religious balance. In the parish of Skull there were about four Protestant families and about four hundred Papist families. Daniel Carthy was the Popish priest of the eastern part of this parish. He had been there ever since before the late troubles. Teige Coghlan was the Popish priest of Kilmoe and of the western part of Skull. He had been there about eight years. The Protestant parish had no glebe. There was no registry book, no Bible, and no Common Prayer book. The Catholic inhabitants had to support both their own clergy and the Protestant ministers. The Cork Grand Jury presentments show that fees were exacted from the Catholics for every domestic occurrence.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from A history of the city and county of Cork (1875), Cusack, Mary Francis, 1829-1899, Internet Archive historyofcitycou0000cusa, Chapter 313 · source

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Megalithic tomb - unclassified, Gubbeen

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Right here at Gubbeen in Cork, there's a megalithic tomb sitting prominently on the rocky crest of Knocknageeha, at the south-west end of Mount Gabriel. What's left is a ruined chamber of inclined slabs, aligned east-north-east to west-south-west, built into a circular cairn. Traces of a low dry-stone kerb survive on the north, west and south sides.

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Burial ground, Kilpatrick (Carbery West (W.D) By.)

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Right here beside the road is a children's burial ground, marked on the 1842 map. It is a subcircular area, about 22 metres across, in rough grazing. Grave markers have been noted within it.

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Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb, Altar

What it said · 197 of 219 words

Right beside the road here at Altar in Cork, there is a wedge tomb on a raised platform above the rocky shore of Toormore Bay. It was excavated in 1989 by Dr. William O'Brien. The chamber is slab-built, aligned east-north-east to west-south-west, formed by two rows of three orthostats each. One roofstone still sits above the east end, and a second rests against the west end. No clear evidence of a cairn was found, likely due to intensive post-medieval cultivation and early 19th-century road construction. Excavation did uncover the socket for a backstone and a low stone kerb at the entrance. That kerb contained three fragments of cetacean bone deliberately deposited there. It overlay two pits on either side of the entrance, filled with shattered slaty stone, possibly tooling debris from shaping the orthostats and capstones. Two cobble-hammers used in that work were also recovered. At the east end of the chamber, a pit held votive deposits of limpet and periwinkle shells and fish bones. A small spread of cremated human bone was found inside the entrance. Outside the chamber, finds included struck pebble flint, among them two end-scrapers and a broken hollow scraper, from cultivation-disturbed ground. Only a single fragment of struck flint came from the chamber itself. It is a National Monument in State care, number 645.

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Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb, Toormore (Carbery West (W.D) By.)

What it said · 260 of 260 words

Right here beside the road is a wedge tomb at Toormore, in west Cork. It was excavated over five weeks in June and July 1990, and the stone chamber was restored in September of that year. The chamber was made of two rows of upright slabs, running roughly north-east to south-west. The northern row had three sidestones placed side by side. The southern row had two certain sidestones with a gap of 0.85 metres between them, and a third upright slab probably stood in that gap. These slabs were set into foundation trenches and formed a gallery measuring 4.25 metres in length. The chamber gets lower as it goes east, from 1.26 metres at the west entrance down to 0.90 metres at the far end. It is also wedge-shaped in plan, 1.88 metres wide at the south-west and narrowing to 1.20 metres at the north-east, where a backstone slab closed it off. The chamber was likely roofed with two overlapping roofstones, but only one survived. No evidence of a cairn or mound covering was found. A bronze axe from the Early Bronze Age and two pieces of raw copper were found together on the north side of the tomb entrance. No other prehistoric artefacts were recovered, and no evidence of burials. Radio-carbon dating places the construction of the monument in the later stages of the Early Bronze Age, around 1700 to 1500 BC. There was intermittent activity at the site in later prehistoric and historic periods. A plan of the monument had been surveyed in 1989, before the excavation began.

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Fineen brings reinforcements from Ballyrisode

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Somewhere around here, in 1319, Fineen, eldest son of Dermod Mor, brought reinforcements from Ballyrisode. The Annals of Munster tell the tale. Donal Caomh, who ruled from 1311 to 1320, was a peaceful man. His name means mild or gentle. He kept clear of Edward Bruce and his wars. He was likely not involved in what happened here. A force of the MacCarthys, under the command of the sons of Finin MacCarthy, came in their long boats to Beara, to the island of Creagaire, Beare Island, to besiege Dermod Mor O'Mahony and his brother. They continued there for five weeks. Fineen, eldest son of Dermod Mor, brought reinforcements from Ballyrisode under difficulties. The vessels of Ivagha were engaged elsewhere, and only one was available. When at length sufficient clansmen had been brought over, there was a skirmish. Two of Dermod's family were lost, and one of Fineen MacCarthy's, and many followers on both sides. Finally, Dermod's two other sons, Donal and Dermod Oge, arriving with their ships, brought off their own party safely to the Carn, the Mizen Head. Donal Caomh married a daughter of Carew, Marquis of Cork, as her second husband. She had been widow of Dermod O'Mahon. The Marquis had settled in Carbery and built a castle near the Abbey of Bantry, called Carew Castle, otherwise Dunnamark. This was one of the many castles destroyed after the battle of Callan by the victorious party.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Kerry Archaeological Magazine (Volume I) (1908), Kerry Archaeological Association, Internet Archive kerryarchaeologicalmagazine, Chapter 159 · source

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Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb, Ballydivlin

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Right here at Ballydivlin in Cork there's a wedge tomb, built into a field fence. The gallery runs north-east to south-west, with three standing sidestones on the north side and a backstone at the east end. A stone partly covering the west end may be a displaced roofstone. There's no trace of the mound that once covered it.

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Fastnet Rock lighthouse and shipwrecks

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Somewhere around here, close to Fastnet Rock, stands the present lighthouse, described as the most important on the Irish coast. It was erected about five miles from Cape Clear, on a rock that looks in the distance like the culminating point of a submerged mountain. In former times, many a shipwreck took place on this rock. Before this lighthouse was built, there was another, on the summit of the highest cliff in the island, Eoile Cahill, at 480 feet above the sea. The Corporation for Improving the Port of Dublin erected it. It showed a bright revolving light of 21 lamps, of which seven became visible every two minutes. In clear weather the light was seen from all points out to sea at 28 nautical miles. But in foggy weather, owing to the high elevation, the light was greatly obscured by cloud and mist, rendering this indispensable lighthouse comparatively useless to ships approaching the land. The place was condemned, the lantern removed, and the present lighthouse erected on Fastnet Rock. The old lighthouse was constructed with great care, and no expense appears to have been spared. The building materials were solely stone and iron. The floors and spiral staircase are composed of granite brought specially from Dublin. The granite blocks in each floor are so carefully adjusted as to resemble a Mosaic pavement. Iron girders and stanchions support and give strength to the walls and lofts.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Sketches in Carbery, county Cork, : its antiquities, history, legends, and topography (1876), Donovan, Daniel, Internet Archive sketchesincarber00dono · source

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Castle - unclassified, Ballydivlin

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Right here at Ballydivlin there's no visible trace left of a castle. Lewis in 1837 called it Desmond Castle, built in 1495 by the O'Mahonys. The structure was still standing in 1844, but nothing remains now.

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signal tower, Rock Island

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Right here on Rock Island in Cork are the ruins of a signal tower, a square-plan three-stage structure built about 1800 with rubble stone walls, string courses and a crenulated parapet. It was one of a network of watch towers put up around the coast of Ireland after the French attempted an invasion at Bantry in 1796, meant to ensure a quick response to any future attack. The entrance is on the north side, with a rubble stone staircase to the east. Though largely ruined now, it still holds its prominent position and keeps the same square-plan first-floor-entrance form you can see in other signal towers across West Cork.

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signal tower, Rock Island

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Right here on Rock Island in Cork are the ruins of a signal tower, built about 1800. It was part of a network of watch towers raised around the coast of Ireland to ensure a quick response to invasion, after the French attempted a landing at Bantry in 1796. The tower is square in plan, three stages high, built of rubble stone with rough-cast rendered walls. The door was on the first floor of the north side. Square-headed blind openings mark the north, west and south walls, and some openings have label mouldings. Though largely in ruins now, its form matches other signal towers in West Cork. It holds a prominent position and stands as a physical reminder of Ireland's military history.

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Castle - unclassified, Castlemehigan

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You're right beside the site of Castle Mehan. There's no visible trace left here on the cliff pasture. Lewis, in 1837, recorded it as the ruins of a castle built by the Mehans or O'Heas in 1540. Nothing remains to see now.

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Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb, Arduslough

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Right here is a wedge tomb at Arduslough in Cork. Its small chamber opens to the south-west, with two stones on each side, closed at the east end by an inset backstone, and still covered by a roofstone. One outer-wall stone stands to the south, and traces of a mound survive around the west end. Another wedge tomb sits 75 metres north-east.

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Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb, Leenane

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Right here at Leenane, overlooking Crook Haven harbour, are the remains of what's likely a wedge tomb. It's a collapsed chamber with a roofstone about 2 metres across resting on side slabs, though no backstone or mound survives. The exact nature is uncertain, but another wedge tomb with a similar orientation lies 55 metres to the south-west, and a standing stone stands 180 metres to the north.

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Ritual site - holy well, Letter (Carbery West (W.D) By., Kilmoe Par.)

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Right here beside the road, there's a holy well at the base of a steep slope. A spring, about 0.21 metres across, is enclosed by two large flat stones and several smaller ones. It's said to be visited on St. John's Eve, and according to Roberts in 1988, the well is dedicated to St. Brendan.

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Spanish entrenchment at Reen Point, 1601

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Right here at Reen Point, also called Galleon Point, the eastern boundary of Castlehaven harbour is formed by a bluff rocky promontory. During the wars of 1601, the Spaniards entrenched themselves upon the high ground commanding the harbour. From this position they bombarded Admiral Levison's ship when she went aground. The Spanish entrenchment, resembling an ancient rath, is still to be seen. Quite close to it are numerous little mounds of earth, the headstones almost covered by the soil, where lie the remains of the Spaniards who had fallen in action or died of disease. The country people are under the impression that it is the resting place of those who died there, though the account does not say what that impression was. In earlier times, when smuggling was an everyday occurrence, the hamlet of Grlenbarrahane carried on a flourishing contraband trade with the coast of Spain. About a century ago, a linen manufactory was established at Killehangill, but it has long since fallen to decay.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Sketches in Carbery, county Cork, : its antiquities, history, legends, and topography (1876), Donovan, Daniel, Internet Archive sketchesincarber00dono, Chapter 10 · source

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Castle - unclassified, Lissagriffin

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Right here at Lissagriffin in Cork, there was an O'Mahony castle, standing in tillage ground overlooking Barley Cove. Lewis in 1837 wrote that "some remains of ancient castles...exist at Lisgriffin," but there's no visible trace now. A possible souterrain lies to the west-south-west.

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Mizen Head marked on Ptolemy's map

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Somewhere about Mizen Head, you are near a place the ancient world knew by name. In the second century, the geographer and astronomer Ptolemy was familiar with the coast of Carbery, and on one of his maps he prominently marked this headland, calling it Notium Promontorium. He described the territory as inhabited by the Iberi, which points to the inhabitants' origin from a Spanish source. Iberia was the old name of Spain. Considerable traffic formerly prevailed between Spain and the people living between Baltimore and Berehaven. Spanish colonists settled along the coast and intermarried with the original settlers. The Spanish type of feature amongst many of their descendants was evident even to the most casual observer. Corca Laidhe was originally co-extensive with the diocese of Ross, founded by St. Fachna, one of the O'Driscoll race, in the 6th century. Long before the English invasion the O'Mahonys, whose stronghold was near Bandon, made a raid upon the O'Driscoll territory and took the western portion of Corca Laidhe, bordering the sea.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Sketches in Carbery, county Cork, : its antiquities, history, legends, and topography (1876), Donovan, Daniel, Internet Archive sketchesincarber00dono, Chapter 2 · source

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French fleet sighted off Crookhaven

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Somewhere close to Crookhaven, in 1796, the French expedition fleet was first sighted by the Honourable Courtenay Boyle, commander of the Kangeroo frigate. He raced to Crookhaven to raise the alarm, but severe weather made communication with the mainland extremely difficult. Connections were eventually made, and the news was sent to Admiral Kingsmill at the Cove of Cork. Mr. Hall of Leamcon also passed the news to Mr. White of Seafield Park, who was the first to inform the Irish government, and was rewarded with elevation to the peerage as Lord Bantry.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from A history of the city and county of Cork (1875), Cusack, Mary Francis, 1829-1899, Internet Archive historyofcitycou0000cusa, Chapter 328 · source

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Burial ground, Kilbarry (Carbery West (W.D) By.)

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Right beside the road here is Kilbarry burial ground, a slightly raised circular area in bogland. Grave markers run around the inner edge, leaving the centre clear. O'Donoghue in 1986 noted an ancient church once adjoined the site, but nothing of it remains visible now.

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Tim Jarvis and the Fairy Gold of Ballydehob

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Somewhere around here, Tim Jarvis dreamed again and again of a crock of gold buried beneath a furze bush in the Fort field. The next night his hopes got the better of his fears, so he armed himself with a bottle of potheen and went to the field. He jumped into the pit, took a little sup to keep his heart up, then a big one, and with a desperate wrench he wrenched up the stone. Up rushed a blast of wind, wild and fierce, and down fell Tim, down and down, until he thumped upon what seemed like a floor of sharp pins, which made him bellow out. Then he heard a whisk and a hurra, and voices beyond number cried out, "Welcome, Tim Jarvis, dear! Welcome, down here!"

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland (1825), T. Crofton Croker, Project Gutenberg #39752, Chapter 28 · source

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Children's burial ground, Ardura Beg

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Right here at Ardura Beg, there's a local tradition of a cillin, a children's burial ground, in a field to the south of the old Skibbereen to Ballydehob road. William Casey reported it in 2013. The modern N71 road passes over the site, so you may be driving directly above it.

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1600 raid on Kilcoe Castle at Aughadown

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Somewhere close to Kilcoe, in 1600, Sir Richard Percy led a detachment from the Kinsale garrison into Carbery. They meant to attack Ross, but finding it too strongly fortified, they detoured to Leap and made a sudden raid on Kilcoe at Aughadown, a MacCarthy castle west of Skibbereen. They seized 300 head of cattle and desolated the country as much as they could.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Sketches in Carbery, county Cork, : its antiquities, history, legends, and topography (1876), Donovan, Daniel, Internet Archive sketchesincarber00dono, Chapter 15 · source

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Mass-rock, Ardura Beg

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Here at Ardura Beg in Cork, right beside the road, there's a rock known locally as a mass-rock. It has a shelf or pulpit cut into its south face, while the north side is sheer and straight up and down. The record tells us nothing of when people gathered here or what they faced. It only names the stone and its shape.

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Burial ground, Prohoness

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Right here at Prohoness in Cork is a burial ground for children. It was marked on a map in 1842, set in heath. There's nothing visible above ground now. {

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Burial ground, Hollyhill (Carbery W. (E.D) By.)

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Right here is a burial ground for children, marked on a map in 1842. It's a level patch in pasture, cut into the hillside to the north and raised on the south side to keep it flat. No grave markers were noted.

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Burial ground, Munnane

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Right here at Munnane is a burial ground, in scrub on a steep south-facing slope. It's known locally as the keel field, but the site is inaccessible due to heavy overgrowth.

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Burial ground, Mohanagh

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Right here at Mohanagh in Cork is a burial ground for children, marked on the 1842 Ordnance Survey map. It lies in pasture, though heavy overgrowth has made the site indistinguishable now.

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Ritual site - holy well, Mohanagh

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Right here at Mohanagh in Cork, there's a rock outcrop with one large depression and three smaller ones in its south face. Local tradition calls these holy wells, and the field they sit in is known as the Bullan. That's all the record holds.

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Abbeystrowry Church ruins and famine burials

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Somewhere around here stand the fragmentary ruins of Abbeystrowry Church, near Skibbereen, on the site of a 12th-century Cistercian abbey branch. In the year 1172, Dermot M'Cormac McCarthy, who was king of Cork at that period, founded a religious house in the parish of Myross. Smith, in his History of Cork, writing about a hundred years ago, states that in his time, even then, the traces above ground of both abbeys had disappeared. He says:

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Sketches in Carbery, county Cork, : its antiquities, history, legends, and topography (1876), Donovan, Daniel, Internet Archive sketchesincarber00dono, Chapter 4 · source

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The Watch-House Sepulchre in Skibbereen Graveyard

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Coming up along Skibbereen, in Cork. In 1847 a visitor walked with the Reverend Mr. F---- through the town's filthy lanes and into the graveyard. At its centre stood a small watch-house, seven feet long and six feet broad. It had served as a grave where the dying could bury themselves. An embankment of graves already rose halfway to the eaves around it. The entrance would scarcely admit a common-sized person. Living men, women, and children went down into that noisome sepulchre to die. They pillowed themselves upon rotten straw, upon the grave-clothes of previous victims, festering with their fever. They lay as closely to each other as if crowded side by side on the bottom of one grave. Six persons had been found in there at one time. Only one was able to crawl to the door and ask for water. The visitor's party removed a board from the entrance and found it crammed with wan victims of famine, ready and willing to perish.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from A Journal of a Visit of Three Days to Skibbereen, and Its Neighbourhood (1847), Elihu Burritt, Project Gutenberg #25115, Chapter 2 · source

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Crowds of Starving Besiege the Skibbereen Soup-House

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As you pass through Skibbereen, this is the town Burritt walked through on Saturday, February 20, 1847, with Reverend Mr. F---- and several gentlemen of the town. He called it a Potter's Field of destitution and death. The moment they opened the door, a crowd of haggard creatures pressed upon them with agonizing prayers for bread and followed them to the soup-house. One woman whose entreaties became irresistibly importunate had watched all night in the graveyard, lest the body of her husband should be stolen from his resting place, to which he had been consigned yesterday. She had left five children sick with the famine fever in her hovel, and she raised an exceedingly bitter cry for help. A man with swollen feet pressed closely upon them and begged for bread most piteously. He had pawned his shoes for food, which he had already consumed. The soup-house was surrounded by a cloud of these famine spectres, half naked, standing or sitting in the mud beneath a cold, drizzling rain. The narrow defile to the dispensary bar was choked with young and old of both sexes, struggling forward with rusty tin and iron vessels for soup, some of them upon all fours, like famished beasts. Among the crowd at the bread dispensary, one man stood out. He lived several miles from the town and had fastened his youngest child to his back and brought four more by his side, staggered to the door. His hair upon his face was nearly as long as that upon his head. His cheeks were fallen in, his jaws so distended he could scarcely articulate a word.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from A Journal of a Visit of Three Days to Skibbereen, and Its Neighbourhood (1847), Elihu Burritt, Project Gutenberg #25115, Chapter 2 · source

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Harrington's Lights near Skibbereen

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Up ahead is Skibbereen, the town the road passes through. About two miles from here, on a desolate beach, stood the cottage of a poor, sick man named Harrington. Strange lights moved along the walls of his room, and the phenomenon became known as the Skibbereen lights. They drew visitors from across Cork and beyond: ministers, men of science, families from their country seats, fox-hunters, devotees, carriages, pedestrians, and horsemen. All of them tried to find fraud or imposture, and all of them failed. Inside, on a low bed beside the wall, destitute of every comfort, lay Harrington himself. There was calm in his eye and composure in his tone, no sign of pain of conscience or depravity of heart. He said he was happy night and day, though his suffering was great. He never asked for help or charity. The little he had seemed enough, and he did not care for more. A few visitors left a trifle behind them, but most gave nothing. He was so emaciated it seemed life could not long remain in such a frame. His arm was skin and bone. Yet after nearly a year had passed, those who saw him again were surprised to find the same emaciation. He was about thirty-five, and passed his time in reading and prayer, chiefly, it was said, in the latter.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Sketches in Carbery, county Cork, : its antiquities, history, legends, and topography (1876), Donovan, Daniel, Internet Archive sketchesincarber00dono, Chapter 11 · source

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Skibbereen devastated by the Great Famine

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As the road passes through Skibbereen, a market and post town in the parish of Abbeystowry, you are in a place that suffered more than any other in Ireland during the great famine of 1846 to 1848. The town stands on the southern bank of the river Hen and consists of seven streets. The census was expected to show a population of over 4,000, though no part of Ireland lost more of its people during those years than the town and district of Skibbereen. Like Dunmanway, Clonakilty, and Bandon, it once had a woollen and linen trade, but that belongs to its past history. It is well situated for trade. The tide from the harbour of Baltimore flows up to the town, and the river Hen is navigable for vessels of 200 tons to Old Court, two miles below the town. The parochial church of Abbeystowry is in Bridgetown. There is a chapel, a Grecian edifice, erected in 1826 under the direction of Doctor Collins, Bishop of Ross.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from The history of the county and city of Cork (vol. 2) (1861), Gibson, Charles Bernard, Internet Archive historyofcountyc02gibsiala, Chapter 265 · source

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Burial ground, Gortnaclohy

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A burial ground is right here at Gortnaclohy. A Protestant graveyard noted by Burke in 1918, it sits near the junction of High Street and Chapel Street in Skibbereen, with walled frontage on Chapel Lane and a gateway at the north-west corner. It's seldom used, though several headstones and chest tombs remain.

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Castle - unclassified, Gortnaclohy

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You're right beside the site of a MacCarthy Reagh castle here at Gortnaclohy. It stood on the east bank of a stream, and in 1842 a map showed a dotted circular area. O'Donovan wrote in 1876 that the site of the bawn and traces of the foundations were still visible. Today there's no surface trace left.

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Castle - tower house, Oldcourt (Carbery West (E.D) By.)

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Right here is a tower house of the O'Driscoll clan, standing on the east shore of the Ilen river estuary. It rises four storeys now, though it was originally at least a floor higher, with a bawn enclosure on its north and west sides. The Crown forces took this castle after the Battle of Kinsale. Inside, a spiral stair in the northwest corner climbs past a wicker-centred vault to the upper floors, and there are small fireplaces in the south wall on the second and third levels. Traces remain of centering supports for a second vault above the third floor, but that vault has entirely fallen.

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Book of Dues presented to St. Fachtnan on Inishbeg

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Somewhere around here is Inishbeg, a small island where the river separates into two distinct channels, the western one navigable for vessels of about 250 tons as far as Old Court. A memorable circumstance connected with this island is recorded in the Genealogy of Corca Laidhe. At Ard-na-bPartan, meaning Crab Fish Hill, Conall, chieftain of Corca Laidhe, the ancient name of Carbery, presented the Book of Dues to St. Fachtnan, the first Bishop of Rosscarbery. This happened about the latter end of the 6th century. On each bank of the river is a place called Collatrum Beg and More on the Ordnance Map, though the ancient name is still used by the peasantry of Carbery. Separated by a narrow channel from Inishbeg, between the two river channels, lies the next island, Ringa Roega or Donegal as styled in the charts. Donegal derives from Dun-na-n Gall, meaning castle or stronghold of the foreigners. The county of Donegal, anciently Tyrconnell, got its name similarly from a fort built by the Danes near the town. At the north end of Ringa Roega stand the remains of an ancient castle, erected in 1215 by the Barrets of Munster. Around the same period were built the castles of Dun-na-sead at Baltimore and Glandore Castle.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Sketches in Carbery, county Cork, : its antiquities, history, legends, and topography (1876), Donovan, Daniel, Internet Archive sketchesincarber00dono, Chapter 4 · source

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Bog-slide at Rathmore, Christmas 1896

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Close to Rathmore, at Christmas in 1896, a bog called Bogach-na-Mine, "the bog of the meal," rolled bodily southward. It was some 200 acres in extent. The slide began near Quarry Lodge, north of the station, and swept away houses, suffocating some of their occupants.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from A Pictorial and descriptive guide to the Lakes of Killarney, Glengariff, and south-west Ireland, including a guide to Cork (1906), Ward, Lock and Company, ltd, Internet Archive pictorialdescrip00ward_1, Chapter 21 · source

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Megalithic tomb - passage tomb, The Lag (Ringarogy Island)

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Here on the east side of Ringarogy Island, a small rocky eminence in the estuary of the Illen River, lies a passage tomb at a place locally known as the Lag. Almost the entire tomb is inundated at high tide. It is covered in sea-weed, and only the tops of two orthostats are visible above the high-water mark. What remains is a gallery, aligned east-north-east to west-south-west. It is formed by three sidestones to the north and three to the south. The gallery opens to the east, where a transversely set, jamb-like stone stands at the east end of the north side, with a further smaller orthostat to the east indicating some form of elaboration at the entrance area. The west end of the gallery is closed by a substantial backstone. Four prostrate slabs lie to the east of the entrance area, and two others to the south, probably representing displaced roofing elements. The mound has for the most part been removed by tidal action. Three kerbstones remain in situ 2 metres north of the gallery, and three possible examples can be identified to the north-west.

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Ritual site - holy well, Rathmore (Carbery West (E.D) By.)

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Right here at Rathmore in west Cork is a holy well, a rectangular stone-lined well built into a west-facing slope, with a lintelled stone cover. A large stone slab partially closes its westward opening. It now serves as a drinking trough for cattle.

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Castle - unclassified, Ballylinchy

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Right here at Ballylinchy in Cork is the site of what may be Teig O'hidriskoll's moated site, referred to in 1538. On the shore of Church Strand Bay, a small portion of stone walling is visible, with upstanding walls nearby that may have formed part of a bawn. To the north, the foreshore was deliberately cleared so small craft could land. Not much survives above ground, but the place had a working edge to it, open to the sea.

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Waterford mayor raids O'Driscoll's castle at Baltimore, Christmas 1413

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Coming up now is Baltimore, the town on the coast in Cork. On Christmas Day 1413, this was the seat of the O'Driscolls, whose great house or castle stood within the haven. Symon Wicken, Mayor of Waterford, in the first year of his mayoralty, sailed here on Christmas Eve with a ship of armed men. The bailiffs Roger Walsh and Thomas Saulter were with him. In the night of Christmas Day, at supper time, he landed his men and came in good order to the gate of O'Driscoll's great house. He called the porter and told him to say to his lord that the Mayor of Waterford had come into the haven with a ship of wine and would gladly come in to see him. The porter gave the message. The gate was set open. The mayor took the porter and put him aside, and walked into the great hall. O'Driscoll and his kinsman and friends were sitting at boards, ready to sup. The mayor commanded them not to move or fear, saying he meant to draw no man's blood of that house, only "to dance and drynke, and so to depart." With that he took up to dance with O'Driscoll and his son, the prior of the friary, O'Driscoll's three brethren, his uncle, and his wife. Leaving them in the dance, the mayor commanded every one of his men to hold fast the said persons. After singing a carol, they came away and brought O'Driscoll and his company aboard the ship, telling them they should go to Waterford to sing their carol and make merry that Christmas. They made sail and arrived at Waterford on St. Steven's Day at night, where they were received with great joy and lights. Years later, reprisals came. On June 3, 1461, an overthrow was given by the mayor and citizens of Waterford upon O'Driscoll at Ballymacdare, in the county of Waterford.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from A history of the city and county of Cork (1875), Cusack, Mary Francis, 1829-1899, Internet Archive historyofcitycou0000cusa, Chapter 429 · source

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O'Driscoll seizure of wine ship at Baltimore, 1537

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As you pass through Baltimore in Cork, this is where the O'Driscolls pulled off a famous seizure in 1537. On 20 February 1537, four ships from Lisbon carrying wine for Waterford merchants were driven by bad weather to Cape Clear, Baltimore, and the Old Head of Kinsale. One of them, the Santa Maria de Soci, carrying 100 tuns of wine, took refuge in a bay near the entrance to Baltimore harbour. Conoghar O'Driscoll, chieftain of Sherkin, and his sons boarded her and piloted her safely into Baltimore harbour, the agreed reward being three pipes of wine. Then the O'Driscolls seized the merchants, attacked the ship, and shared out the wine among their neighbours.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Sketches in Carbery, county Cork, : its antiquities, history, legends, and topography (1876), Donovan, Daniel, Internet Archive sketchesincarber00dono, Chapter 5 · source

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Sack of Baltimore

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Somewhere close to this place, on the 20th of June 1631, the village of Baltimore in West Cork was attacked by pirates from the Barbary Coast of North Africa. The raiders included Dutchmen, Moroccans, Algerians and Ottoman Turks, and it was the largest Barbary slave raid ever carried out on Ireland. The attack was led by a Dutch captain from Haarlem, Murad Reis the Younger, who had himself been enslaved by the Barbary pirates and freed after converting to Islam. An Irish Catholic fisherman of Old English descent named John Hackett guided Murad's force to the village. Hackett was captain of a fishing boat captured shortly before the raid, and he was said to have led the pirates there in exchange for his own release. Dark conspiracy theories linking Hackett, Sir Walter Coppinger, and Murad persist. Hackett was later hanged from the cliff-top outside the village for conspiracy.

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Ritual site - holy well, Baltimore

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There's a holy well right here in Baltimore, though no trace shows now. A pump stands in its place. Baltimore Castle lies a short distance to the north-east. The story goes that in the early 17th century Sir Fineen O'Driscoll threw fistfuls of silver coins into the well to amuse and enrich some English sailors.

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Baltimore and the Algerian pirate raid of 1631

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As you come through Baltimore, the town carries a history worth knowing. In 1601 the owners of the soil joined the Tyrone rebellion and placed their castles in the hands of the Spaniards. That led to the introduction of an English colony into the town. The place was then walled and incorporated, and obtained the privilege of parliamentary representation. In 1631 it was attacked by Algerian pirates, who massacred the inhabitants and carried off 200 of the settlers as slaves. A rock commanding the harbour is crowned by the ruins of Dunashad Castle, and the church has a fine tower. The harbour extends northward almost to Skibbereen. The largest of the islands is Sherkin, at the mouth of the bay, about 3 miles long by 2 broad. Of old it contained a Franciscan abbey and a strong castle. Both were destroyed by the irate citizens of Waterford, to punish the piratical proclivities of the O'Driscolls, the owners of this and the surrounding islands and of a slice of the mainland. The ruins can be well seen from the Beacon, so only enthusiastic antiquaries will go to the expense of hiring a boat to reach them.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from A Pictorial and descriptive guide to the Lakes of Killarney, Glengariff, and south-west Ireland, including a guide to Cork (1906), , Internet Archive pictorialdescrip00unse_1, Chapter 66 · source

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Burial ground, Ballymacrown

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Right beside the road here at Ballymacrown in Cork is an old burial ground in pasture. A low stone wall partly encloses it, with burials marked by small cairns and a cross slab in the north-east part.

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Castle - unclassified, Ardagh South

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Right here in Ardagh South is the site of an O Driscoll castle. It stood on a high rock outcrop with a commanding view in every direction. By 1837 only a small fragment remained, and today the castle is levelled, leaving just a grass-covered mound of rubble with some stone-faced earthen terracing to the south.

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Cross-sculptured pillar-stone near Teampleen Breeda

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Coming up along Lough Hyne, near the little chapel of Teampleen Breeda, there is a verdant knoll where you can see a broken pillar-stone, propped between two headstones, with an ancient cross sculptured on it near the base. The people always regarded it as a relic of sanctity, some saintly person being buried near the spot, or having engraved the cross upon the stone. The tradition goes that on some distant occasion an adventurous and foolhardy coastguardsman determined to put the matter to the test. He had the Gothic audacity to remove the relic to his own house during the night. Next morning it was in its original site again. Nothing daunted, he removed it a second time and dropped it into the centre of the lake. The following day the stone again resumed its former situation near the chapel. Enraged beyond measure, he vowed its destruction. Taking a sledge-hammer, he made a most savage attack upon the unoffending object of his wrath. As Bill Barrett asserts in the most positive terms, although the coastguard broke the pillar stone in two, if he had been hammering away until the day of judgment he could not injure that portion of the stone on which the cross was sculptured. The coastguardman immediately left the country, and was shortly after this occurrence drowned. Such is the popular version of the story in the neighbourhood of Lough Hyne. A short but steep ascent from Teampleen Breeda brings you to Tobar Breeda, St. Brigid's well, a small hollow in the solid rock, at the margin of which may be observed an impression said to be caused by St. Brigid's knees.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Sketches in Carbery, county Cork, : its antiquities, history, legends, and topography (1876), Donovan, Daniel, Internet Archive sketchesincarber00dono, Chapter 9 · source

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Ritual site - holy well, Pookeen (Carbery West (E.D) By.)

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Right here is a holy well called Tobarín na súl, the well of the eyes, near Lough Hyne in Knockomagh Wood. It is a small well, about 1 metre across and less than a metre front to back, enclosed by a U-shaped stone wall open to the east toward a path. Rosary beads and other religious and personal items have been left on the wall, and pieces of cloth hang from a mountain ash tree beside it. According to Roberts in 1988, this well and another called Shour Well nearby are both dedicated to St Brigit.

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Lough Hyne castle ruins and children's graveyard

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You are coming near Lough Hyne, about four miles from Skibbereen. The town of Skibbereen, with about 3,000 inhabitants, stands where the Hen widens out to form the creek. It has suffered severely during successive famines, and the guide calls it unattractive. The walk or drive from there to this lough should not be missed. Lough Hyne is a kind of marine cul-de-sac, with a very narrow inlet from the sea. The country around is wild and desolate in the extreme, but the immediate surroundings of the lough are picturesque. In the centre of the lake is an islet, on which are the ruins of an old castle of the O'Donnells. On the shore is a graveyard devoted exclusively to the burial of children, found nowhere but in Ireland.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Pictorial and descriptive guide to the Lakes of Killarney, Glengariff, and south-west Ireland, including a guide to Cork. (1906), Ward, Lock and Company, ltd, Internet Archive pictorialdescrip00ward_0, Chapter 77 · source

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Siege of Ballyally Castle near Ennis, 1642

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Somewhere around here is where Ballyally Castle stood, near Ennis. On the 10th of January 1642, Hugh O'Grady of Stradnegalow raised his clan and began hostilities against the English settlers in the county of Clare. On the 4th of February, they, along with Connor O'Brien of Lemeneigh, Sir Donell O'Brien, and a few others of that name, though without the approval of the Earl of Thomond, and aided by the MacNamaras, the O'Loghlens of Burren, the O'Hogans, the O'Shaughnessys, and others, made their attack on Ballyally Castle. The castle was held by the widow of Maurice Cuffe, an Englishman and a merchant in Ennis, assisted by her sons, one of whom was ancestor of the Earl of Desart. Captain Henry Gradey of Cnockaney in the county of Limerick was one of the chief leaders in the undertaking, and he was deputed to summon the castle. He was asked by some upon the battlement what authority he had to demand it, or what right or claim he could lay to it. He answered that he had commission from his majesty to banish all the Protestants of the kingdom of Ireland. Upon that, without further examination, a bullet was sent from the castle by one of the warders to examine his commission. It went through his thigh, but he made shift to crawl to the bushes and there fell down. He lay by it only sixteen weeks, in which time it was cured. The siege was raised on the 27th of February after a successful sally from the castle.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Limerick, its history and antiquities; ecclesiastical, civil, and military,from the earliest ages, with copious historical, archaeological, topographical, and genealogical notes (1884), Lenihan, Maurice, 1811-1895, Internet Archive limerickitshisto00leni, Chapter 38 · source

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Burial ground, Drishane More (Carbery West (E.D.) By.)

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Right beside the road here is a small burial ground in rough pasture, between two ridges of outcropping rock. It was known locally as the kill burial ground, for children. Old maps from 1842 and 1902 mark it as Kill Burial Ground.

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Edmond Donovan of Bawnlahan kills O'Sullivan Beare's son

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Somewhere close to Bawnlahan, Edmond Donovan killed the eldest son of O'Sullivan Beare. It happened in a dispute over the boundary of their estates. Donovan fled the county of Cork and settled at Gaulstown in county Kilkenny before 1643. The Donovans of this branch kept the memory of their descent alive across generations. An Edmond Donovan, born in 1760, married Eleanor Hoberlin of Rochestown in 1788, and died on the 29th of July, 1817. As he lay dying, he told his eldest son, who sat beside him, to remember his descent. He asked to be buried, in his words, “along with the good men of Dunkitt, but not under the large tombstone.”

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from The history of the county and city of Cork (vol. 2) (1861), Gibson, Charles Bernard, Internet Archive historyofcountyc02gibsiala, Chapter 265 · source

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Burial ground, Barryroe (Carbery W. (E.D.) By.)

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Right here is a burial ground in Barryroe. It is a triangular patch in pasture, known locally as a children's burial ground. The grave markers have been removed and are lying to one side. There is no further story attached to this place.

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Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb, Barryroe (Carbery W. (E.D.) By.), Lahardane More

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Right here is a wedge tomb, a megalithic tomb on a narrow terrace on the north-facing slope of a ridge of outcropping rock. Its north side is built into a townland boundary fence. The wedge-shaped chamber opens to the west-south-west, with each side formed from a single slab that decreases in height toward the east. A single roofstone covers the east end. There is no sign of a surrounding mound.

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Burial ground, Rea

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Right beside the road here in Rea, County Cork, is a children's burial ground, marked as such on the 1842 map. It's a roughly circular patch in pasture, 16 metres north to south and 14 metres east to west, partly enclosed by a low stone wall. There are no gravemarkers.

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Castletownshend castle and naval engagement

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Up ahead is Castletownshend, a town on the head of Castle Haven. Toe Head, eastward of the lough, commands a singularly beautiful scene, and three rocks of unusual height called the Stags stand between the water and the land. The ocean is flecked with small islets, around which the sea dances and sparkles in the sunlight. A western promontory terminates at the head and shuts in Castle Haven, and at its head is Castletownshend, of old known as Sleugleig. The modern name of the town and of the bay comes from a strong castle belonging to the Townsends. Followers of King James besieged that castle twice, in vain, during the struggle that culminated in the battle of the Boyne. Earlier, in 1602, the harbour was the scene of a naval engagement between the Spaniards under Don Pedro de Zuibar and the British fleet commanded by Sir Richard Levison. There are several inns in the town.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Pictorial and descriptive guide to the Lakes of Killarney, Glengariff, and south-west Ireland, including a guide to Cork. (1906), Ward, Lock and Company, ltd, Internet Archive pictorialdescrip00ward_0, Chapter 77 · source

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Wreck of the Santa Ana Maria (1628)

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Right beside the road here at Reen Point, on the eastern side of the entrance to Castlehaven Harbour, lies the wreck of the Santa Ana Maria, a Spanish galleon lost in 1628. She was the flagship of the New World Spanish treasure fleet of 1627. Her end came after a long and circuitous voyage from Cuba. The fleet had been held up in Matanzas Bay in Cuba, waiting for the trade winds to carry them back to Spain. But the Dutch fleet of the West Indies Company, under Piet Hein, an accomplished privateer and maritime commander, entered the narrow mouth of the bay and captured the full treasure fleet. He took four of the galleons and the treasure in their holds. He made his way back to Holland triumphantly, but some of the ships were scattered by a storm. The Santa Ana Maria was separated from the others and was in turn captured by an English privateer, the Dragon. Her captain was bringing the galleon back to Bristol as a prize. He sailed close to the southern coast of Ireland, and in another storm sought refuge in Castlehaven. The Spanish vessel underestimated the depth of water and was cast upon the rocks on the eastern edge of the entrance to the harbour. The wreck was discovered in the 1970s by local divers, and several guns and artefacts were recovered. One of the guns is now housed in the National Museum of Ireland, along with other artefacts handed over by divers Mr Sidney and David Woodnam.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Wreck Inventory of Ireland Database (CC-BY 4.0), WIID W10014 · source

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Castletownsend castle siege of 1690

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Somewhere close to Castletownsend, there was once a castle built by the M'Carthys. The old ruins can still be seen within the demesne here. In 1690, during the war of James the Second, his troops under O'Driscoll attacked the castle but were beaten back and their commander killed. Mac Fineen O'Driscoll then returned with 400 men, forced the garrison to surrender, and held the place until Colonel Colliford attacked and retook it.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Sketches in Carbery, county Cork, : its antiquities, history, legends, and topography (1876), Donovan, Daniel, Internet Archive sketchesincarber00dono, Chapter 10 · source

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Burial ground, Carrigtishane

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There's a burial ground here in Carrigtishane, in what's now pasture. A map from 1842 marked it as a children's burial ground, but there's no visible trace of it on the surface today.

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Burial ground, Forenaght

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Right here at Forenaght in Cork is a children's burial ground, marked on the 1842 map. There's nothing to see now. The site is lost under heavy scrub and overgrowth.

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Harrington's Lights at Union Hall (1832–1838)

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Coming up along Unionhall now. Back in 1832, a poor labouring man named Thomas Harrington lived in a small cabin close to the sea-side, at the foot of a hill called Ardagh, in the parish of Myross, in the immediate vicinity of Union Hall. He was a man of a delicate constitution. Exposure to hardship, cold, and damp brought on an attack of consumption, and for six years, from 1832 to 1838, he lingered in a dying state, his health gradually undermined by the slow, insidious, but certainly fatal ravages of that most incurable disease. During this period strange lights of a ghastly hue, assuming the most varied forms, were observed from time to time within the walls of the cabin and over the body of the sick man. The report soon travelled far and wide, and from various parts of the county persons of all ranks of society, male and female, assembled to witness Harrington's Lights. Some observed nothing. Some saw faint glimmerings.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Sketches in Carbery, county Cork, : its antiquities, history, legends, and topography (1876), Donovan, Daniel, Internet Archive sketchesincarber00dono, Chapter 11 · source

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Castle - tower house, Listarkin

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There's a tower house here at Listarkin, right beside the road. Most of it is rubble now, though part of the south-west wall still stands, and the stump of the west corner rises to first-floor level with the remains of two window embrasures. Local tradition says it was built in 1251, but the ruin itself dates from the 15th or 16th century. It sat on a ridge with an extensive view over the Myross headland and out to sea.

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Collins manuscript held at Union Hall, Myross

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Up ahead is Unionhall, a town the road passes through here in Cork. A manuscript once lived in this place. The original copy by John Collins, a brief condensed history of ancient Ireland, and the pedigree of the O'Donovans of Clancahill, was possessed by Mr. Philip O'Donovan of Union Hall, Myross. Collins also wrote on the genealogy of the MacCarthys, and that manuscript was held by the same hand who wrote a brief account of Collins himself. The O'Donovan pedigree sat here in this coastal parish, the work of a man who set down the lines of old families and the condensed story of the country before the famine years. The manuscript carried the names and the lineage of Clancahill through the rooms of a house at Union Hall. At the south-east corner of Myross, close to the mouth of Glandore Harbour, lies the townland of Carigilihy. Before 1846 a thriving hamlet stood here, with about 700 people, who lived chiefly by fishing and trading along the coast. When famine came, hunger and disease reached this remote place too. Most who survived emigrated to America. Now only ruined habitations and a scanty population remain, where a numerous colony once resided.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Sketches in Carbery, county Cork, : its antiquities, history, legends, and topography (1876), Donovan, Daniel, Internet Archive sketchesincarber00dono · source

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Legend of Cleena's Wave at Glandore

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Coming up near Glandore in County Cork, where the harbour holds a rock known anciently as Cuandor. There is an old legend attached to this rock. A wave beats against it, called Cleena's wave, and it utters a plaintive sound whenever a southern monarch dies. Cleena was a fairy princess. The legend is recorded in the Wars of the Gaedhil and the Gaell.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from A history of the city and county of Cork (1875), Cusack, Mary Francis, 1829-1899, Internet Archive historyofcitycou0000cusa, Chapter 73 · source

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Thompson's eccentric reputation around Glandore

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You're coming through Glandore now. Thompson was a figure here who once proposed a Deep Sea Fishery Company with Glandore as its chief depot, but the plan came to nothing, like his other projects. In his will he left his body to his medical attendant, with what the book calls

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Sketches in Carbery, county Cork, : its antiquities, history, legends, and topography (1876), Donovan, Daniel, Internet Archive sketchesincarber00dono, Chapter 14 · source

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Harrington's Lights: mysterious luminous phenomenon at Glandore

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Coming up now is Glandore, a village on the harbour here in west Cork. Back in the 1820s this place drew crowds for something strange. A dying man named Harrington had lights appearing in his cabin, and people came from all around to see them. Some called it the miraculous interposition of Heaven, others blamed the black art. The splendour of the lights was said to be a test of the worthiness of the beholder. Well-educated people took it seriously, but the author of the account noted that the lights obeyed the ordinary laws of luminous bodies, the fainter eclipsed by the more brilliant, and so could not properly be called a miracle.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Sketches in Carbery, county Cork, : its antiquities, history, legends, and topography (1876), Donovan, Daniel, Internet Archive sketchesincarber00dono, Chapter 11 · source

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Castle - tower house, Kilfinnan

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Kilfinnan is right here, overlooking Glandore harbour. There's a tower house at the south-west corner of a 19th century embattled castle, a rectangular one with thick walls and an external base batter. It's been converted to residential quarters with doors and windows inserted into it.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), CO142-038---- · source

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Kilfaughnabeg parish and St. Fachna

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The road runs through the parish of Kilfaughnabeg, set between Ross and Glandore. It was once called Fidh Buis, but the name it holds today comes from its patron saint Fachna, meaning

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Sketches in Carbery, county Cork, : its antiquities, history, legends, and topography (1876), Donovan, Daniel, Internet Archive sketchesincarber00dono, Chapter 15 · source

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Burial ground, Kilfinnan

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Right beside the road here at Kilfinnan in Cork is a burial ground, set in rough grazing. It's a square area, 12 metres by 12 metres, marked out by a difference in how the grass grows. Some grave markers are visible. It's known locally as a children's burial ground.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), CO143-046---- · source

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Coppinger's Court ruins at Ballyverine

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Somewhere around here stand the ruins of Ballyverine House, or Coppinger's Court. Sir Walter Coppinger built it in the early 17th century in the Elizabethan style, and during the 18th century it was the largest house in Carbery. Popular tradition gave it a chimney for every month, a door for every week, and "a window for every day in the year." The ruins sit at the head of the valley where the Eowry river runs, near Millcove.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Sketches in Carbery, county Cork, : its antiquities, history, legends, and topography (1876), Donovan, Daniel, Internet Archive sketchesincarber00dono, Chapter 14 · source

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Derry as episcopal seat and the gunpowder catastrophe

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Close to Derry is a famous episcopal seat overlooking Lough Foyle, dedicated to St. Columba. Its name means the Grove of Columba's cell. English heretics landed against the wish and command of O'Donnell. They expelled priests and monks, invaded the holy churches, and in one church placed gunpowder, leaden bullets, bow-strings, slings, spears, and other arms. In other churches they performed the heretical rites of Luther, Calvin, and others of that class of impious men. They left nothing undefiled. St. Columba, it is supposed, did not long delay the punishment of this sin. The natives confidently assert that a wolf of huge size and bristling hair came boldly out of the nearest wood, and entering the iron barriers, emitting from his mouth sparks such as fly from red hot iron when struck, proceeded to where the powder was stored, and set fire to powder and church. The writer does not vouch for the truth of this story. Upon fame and long-standing tradition let it rest. This, which is admitted by all: the gunpowder suddenly took fire, the English who were in the church were burnt up, and those patrolling round the church struck with burning tiles fell dead. Those who fled to neighbouring houses or into the adjoining lake were killed by pursuing tiles, some thrown five hundred paces from the town. Without a single Irishman being wounded, Randal miserably perished with seven hundred English, except a few.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society (1892), Cork Historical and Archaeological Society, Internet Archive journalofcorkhisv21896cork, Chapter 265 · source

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Ancient cathedral of Ross described in 1517 Consistorial Acts

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As you pass through Ross Carbery in Cork, this was the site of an ancient cathedral, first built by St Fachtnan. A consistorial inquiry in 1517 left a detailed description of it, calling it one of the most remarkable structures in the kingdom. At that time the bishop of Ross was John O'Murrily, formerly abbot of the Abbey de Fonte Vivo. He had succeeded Dr. De Couroy, who resigned because of the infirmities of age. The inquiry recorded that the city of Ross stood in the ecclesiastical province of Cashel, in the midst of a vast plain stretching along the sea-shore. It contained 200 houses and was walled round. The land was fertile and yielded abundant crops. The cathedral church, dedicated under the invocation of St Fachtnan, stood in the centre of the city. Its walls were of cut stone. There were two entrances, one at the side and one in front, with a descent of three steps to the level of the church floor, which was unpaved. The roof was of wood, covered with slates. It was cruciform in shape, and equalled in size the church of S. Maria del Popolo in Rome. The central nave was separated by stone pillars from

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Sketches in Carbery, county Cork, : its antiquities, history, legends, and topography (1876), Donovan, Daniel, Internet Archive sketchesincarber00dono, Chapter 15 · source

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Corca Laidhe territory of the O'Driscolls

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Coming up near Ross Carbery. This was Corca Laidhe, the original country of the O'Driscolls and their kin, co-extensive with the diocese of Ross, or Ros-ailethre. Over the centuries, surrounding tribes encroached on and circumscribed their territory.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from A history of the city and county of Cork (1875), Cusack, Mary Francis, 1829-1899, Internet Archive historyofcitycou0000cusa · source

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O'Donovan raids Leap, Castlehaven, Bantry and Rosscarbery

What it said · 136 of 136 words

You are coming through Ross Carbery now. In 1641 and 1642 this was one of the places where the Great O'Donovan, as the Irish called him, did much spoil. His father had been a most notorious rebel, and had burnt the town of Rosse in the last wars. O'Donovan or his soldiers most inhumanely killed a daughter of the old Lord Bishop Lyons, a woman who was both deaf and dumb. Yet he came in upon his protection and saved his lands. Others joined the spoil across the country. O'Sullivan Beare, Teige O'Dounce, Florence McCartee of the castle of Banduffe, and Black O'Cullane joined their forces together. They took great store of pillage and robbed the English about Bantry, Kilcoe, Affadowne, Balledahab-Landore, Cloghnakilty and Inniskeane, Castletowne alias Poldonstowne, the town of Rosse, and all those parts.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society (1892), Cork Historical and Archaeological Society, Internet Archive journalofcorkhisv21896cork, Chapter 178 · source

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Cathedral silver treasure buried in Ross strand

What it said · 66 of 66 words

As you pass through Ross Carbery, you are near the strand where a fortune in silver may still lie hidden. In 1582, when William Lyons became the first Protestant bishop under Elizabeth, all the cathedral and monastery plate and bells were secreted away. They were solid silver, valued at £7,000. Tradition says they were buried deep somewhere in the strand, and nothing has ever been found.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Sketches in Carbery, county Cork, : its antiquities, history, legends, and topography (1876), Donovan, Daniel, Internet Archive sketchesincarber00dono, Chapter 15 · source

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Pilgrimage to tomb of Rev. John Power at Rosscarbery

What it said · 97 of 97 words

As you pass through the town of Ross Carbery, you are near the graveyard where the Reverend John Power was buried after his death in 1831. He was a parish priest said to have had some knowledge of the healing art, and greatly loved by the people while he lived. On each anniversary of his birthday, crowds gathered from across the south of Ireland and sometimes even from England. The lame, the blind, the old and young, the healthy and the sick, and destitute people came soliciting alms around his tomb, honouring his memory since his death.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Sketches in Carbery, county Cork, : its antiquities, history, legends, and topography (1876), Donovan, Daniel, Internet Archive sketchesincarber00dono, Chapter 15 · source

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Megalithic tomb - portal tomb, Ahaglaslin

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Right here at Ahaglaslin in Cork is a well-preserved portal tomb, sitting on a small platform near the top of a hillside overlooking the valley of the Ownahinchy River. The chamber entrance faces east, marked by two tall portal stones, with the southern one leaning against the northern. Each side and the back of the chamber are formed from single stones. A high-pitched roofstone rests on the portals and two large pad-stones to the west. In front of each portal an orthostat forms the inner end of a funnel-shaped approach, and the southern line continues east for 2.5 metres through two pairs of overlapping slabs. Two slabs lean against the south side and three small stones against the north portal, their function unclear.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), CO143-034---- · source

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Ritual site - holy well, Burgatia

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There's a holy well right here at Burgatia. It's now a rectangular pit lined with concrete, with water flowing from it, walled around with a gate for access.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), CO143-030---- · source

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Castle - tower house, Castlefreke

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Right here is the site of Castlefreke tower house. It was built by Randal Oge Barry in the 15th century, but by 1642 Arthur Freke held it, and Irish forces laid siege to the castle for a long time without success. Very little of the old defences survive. The site is now occupied by 19th century farm buildings of the Castlefreke estate. There is a rounded arch at the south-east corner of the coachyard, and a tall revetment wall runs along the rock face to the south and west. A semi-hexagonal bastion projects from that wall, with blocked-up arched openings that appear to have been made for cannon. The farmyard is now being converted into a folk park.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), CO143-074002- · source

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Burial ground, Knocknageehy

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Right here at Knocknageehy in Cork is a children's burial ground, marked on the 1842 map. It sits on top of a rocky knoll with views in every direction, an oval space about 41 metres across and 18 metres deep. There are no gravemarkers, but ruins of a church stand at the south edge and the base of a cross lies just outside to the north-east. A low rectangular mound nearby may mark a grave.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), CO143-041001- · source

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Mass-rock, Knockaphonery

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Right here at Knockaphonery in Cork is a natural hollow in a rock outcrop atop the hill, known locally as a place where mass was said.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), CO134-098---- · source

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Execution of Donogh Duve at Fac's Bridge, Clonakilty

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You're coming through Clonakilty now, the town in Cork where Donogh Duve was brought to die. Three men had been sent to Bandon for execution, since it was ordered that hangings take place in the towns nearest where the offences were committed. Micheal and Dan were detained in Bandon, but Donogh was sent on, strongly escorted. When the escort reached a cross-road adjoining the town, known then and still as Fac's Bridge, the local authorities had everything ready. People from the country and from the town had gathered to see one of the most notorious criminals of the day, and to see whether his reckless daring would cower as he faced death. He took his place on the drop. The rope was adjusted. He nodded and smiled to old friends he recognized in the crowd. The bolt was about to be drawn when he asked, as a last request, to say a few words. It was allowed. He stepped forward with a comic expression that provoked roars of merriment from those who had come to watch him die. "Good people," he said, "all I have to say is, that the best thing for you to light a pipe with is the faded stalk of a potato!" Then he turned with the same humorous leer to the executioner and told him to go on. His disregard for his doom might be explained by the iron collar he wore round his neck, with strong projecting hooks, so that when the drop fell the rope would be caught by them and prevented from pressing fatally on his jugular. The collar was made for him by a smith named Lane, from Ballinacurra. But it did not avail him. Hastings Moore, a brother of the murdered man, who had assisted in his capture at Geara, was watching every move from the foot of the scaffold. He perceived that the neckerchief was unusually large.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from The history of Bandon, and the principal towns in the West Riding of County Cork (1869), Bennett, George, 1824-1900, Internet Archive historybandonan00benngoog, Chapter 16 · source

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1724 election of the suffrain for Clonakilty

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Coming up through Clonakilty here. In October 1724, on St. Luke's day, the lord of the soil neglected to name his choice for suffrain of the borough. Captain John Birde was then unanimously elected and sworn into the post, under the town charter.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society (1892), Cork Historical and Archaeological Society, Internet Archive journalofcorkhisv21896cork, Chapter 107 · source

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Clonakilty corporation elects MPs Bernard and Freke to parliament

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You're coming through Clonakilty now, in Cork. Back on 16 September 1725, the suffrain, burgesses, and freemen of the corporation here met to elect two members of parliament, after a sheriff's summons brought them together. They chose Francis Bernard junior and Brigadier George Freke to represent the borough in Dublin, and the vote carried by a great majority.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society (1892), Cork Historical and Archaeological Society, Internet Archive journalofcorkhisv21896cork · source

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Clonakilty Borough Courts of 1726

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You're passing through Clonakilty in Cork. In August 1726, the borough court met here on Saturday the 13th. Roger Bernard was elected and sworn as a burgess, and several men were admitted as freemen of the town.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society (1892), Cork Historical and Archaeological Society, Internet Archive journalofcorkhisv21896cork, Chapter 109 · source

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Clonakilty Garda Síochána Station

What it said · 159 of 159 words

Right here in Clonakilty stands a building that began life about 1810 as a military barracks. It was a detached nine-bay two-storey structure, though originally three storeys, with breakfront end bays to the front and a five-bay single-storey arcaded loggia entrance. The design was classical and imposing, with projecting end bays and a central arcade that made a powerful statement of authority over the surrounding area. It occupied a commanding position overlooking the town. The walls were roughcast rendered, with a rendered platband below the eaves and a plinth band. Windows throughout were six-over-six pane timber sliding sash, set in square-headed openings with render sills and raised render reveals. The loggia entrance had arcaded round-headed openings with a limestone stepped approach and concrete platform. A round-headed door opened to the interior of the loggia with double-leaf timber panelled doors and a fanlight. It was burnt in 1921 during the Troubles and rebuilt in 1926 as a two-storey Garda station.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (CC-BY 4.0), NIAH 20846051 · source

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Death of Mrs Witherington in Ashe-street house

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Along here on Ashe Street is where Mrs Witherington died, in a house she rented from Thomas Reynolds. He testified she had received about 300 pounds roughly three weeks before her death.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from The life of Thomas Reynolds, Esq. : formerly of Kilkea Castle, in the county of Kildare (1839), Reynolds, Thomas, -1848, author, Internet Archive lifeofthomasreyn01reyn_0, Chapter 431 · source

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hospital/infirmary, Clonakilty

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Right here beside the road in Clonakilty stands a detached three-bay three-storey former fever hospital and dispensary, built about 1850. The Board of Works built it as a fever hospital during the Great Famine. After that it served as a temporary barracks, then a medical dispensary, and finally a school. It is currently vacant. The front faces north-east, with a breakfront end-bay. The walls are rendered, with exposed rubble-limestone on the breakfront. You can see a pointed-arch niche in the gable of the breakfront, with a rendered sill and reveals. The roof is a replacement pitched artificial slate, with a rendered chimneystack. The breakfront has lead-clad gable coping with carved limestone skew corbels. The windows are diminishing square-headed openings with stone sills throughout. They have raised render reveals and roughly cut limestone voussoirs to the gable-front. Some still hold six-over-six and eight-over-eight pane timber sliding sash windows, with remains of four-over-four panes too. The door opening on the front has double-leaf timber battened doors and a blind overlight. It has kept its historic character through those sash windows and fine limestone sills.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (CC-BY 4.0), NIAH 20846178 · source

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Timoleague Abbey founded by MacCarthys in 1372

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As you come through Timoleague, you're passing one of County Cork's grandest religious houses. The abbey was put up in 1372 by the MacCarthys and dedicated to St. Mologua, its name coming from ty-Mologua, the house of Mologua. It was the largest of the many religious houses in the county. The remains still standing include the nave, choir and south transept, along with a square tower 68 feet high added in 1518 by Edward Courcy, Bishop of Ross.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from A Pictorial and descriptive guide to the Lakes of Killarney, Glengariff, and south-west Ireland, including a guide to Cork (1906), Ward, Lock and Company, ltd, Internet Archive pictorialdescrip00ward_1, Chapter 91 · source

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Edmund de Courcey's improvements to Timoleague Abbey

What it said · 56 of 56 words

As you pass through Timoleague, this town holds the abbey Edmund de Courcey retired to in 1517 after resigning his see. With his nephew James, Lord Kinsale, he built the steeple, still standing, along with the dormitory, infirmary, and library, and gave plate and books. He is buried in a chapel of the abbey, now unroofed.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society (1892), Cork Historical and Archaeological Society, Internet Archive journalofcorkhisv21896cork, Chapter 289 · source

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Bishop Courcy enriches Franciscan convent at Timoleague

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As the road brings you through Timoleague in Cork, this is a town with a Franciscan story. Edmund Courcy was a Franciscan transferred from the See of Clogher to Ross by a brief dated 26 September 1494. He ruled the diocese of Ross for 24 years. The obituary book of the Franciscans of Timoleague, recording his death on 10 March 1518, describes him as a special benefactor of their convent, both during his episcopate and at his death. He enriched the convent with a library, and built for its convenience an additional dormitory and an infirmary. He also built its steeple, and decorated the church with many precious ornaments. This Franciscan church continued for nearly 100 years as a special devotional resort of the people, until its fathers were dispersed, and the convent reduced to a heap of ruins in the reign of Elizabeth.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from A history of the city and county of Cork (1875), Cusack, Mary Francis, 1829-1899, Internet Archive historyofcitycou0000cusa, Chapter 162 · source

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Timoleague Franciscan monastery site

What it said · 56 of 56 words

You're coming through Timoleague, in Cork, the site of a famous Franciscan monastery. The name comes from Teach Malaga, meaning Molaga's house, after St. Molaga, though there's no record of his connection with this place. The monastery was founded by the Mac Carthys, who were great patrons of the Franciscan order in the south of Ireland.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from A history of the city and county of Cork (1875), Cusack, Mary Francis, 1829-1899, Internet Archive historyofcitycou0000cusa, Chapter 445 · source

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Castle - tower house, Castle Lower

What it said · 152 of 152 words

Right here beside the road, the ivy-covered remains of a tower house stand on the west bank of the Argideen River, close to where it meets the Courtmacsherry estuary. The tower measures 13.4 metres north to south and 10.8 metres east to west, now standing two storeys high. A photograph from 1907 shows it as a four-storey tower with gables and chimney stacks. The castle was damaged by an explosion in the 1920s, and Cork County Council reduced its height in the 1930s. The north-east corner has collapsed. Pointed-arch doorways on the ground floor sit in the east and south walls, with the south door covered by a gun loop. A window transom now lying at the foot of the south wall carries an inscription: David Barry and Ellen Roche had it cut, dated August 1, 1586, probably marking a refurbishment. A similar inscription was cut at Barryscourt Castle in east Cork.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), CO123-052---- · source

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Abbey Mahon monastery ruins

What it said · 44 of 44 words

Somewhere close to Abbeymahon, south of Timoleague, you have the ruins of a monastery founded by Bernardine monks. Lord Barry granted them eighteen ploughlands, but the abbey was never finished. The property was seized by the crown at the dissolution of the religious houses.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from The history of the county and city of Cork (vol. 2) (1861), Gibson, Charles Bernard, Internet Archive historyofcountyc02gibsiala, Chapter 259 · source

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Abbeymahon Abbey

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Somewhere around here are the ruins of Abbeymahon Abbey, a medieval Cistercian house also known as the Abbey of St Mary de Fonte Vivo. Little is known about it, due to a dearth of documentary evidence, but it was a flourishing and wealthy abbey up until its suppression in the 16th century.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), en.wikipedia.org: Abbeymahon Abbey · source

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Church of Courtmather ruins near Sandy Cove

What it said · 126 of 259 words

As the road takes you through Courtmacsherry, we are near the Old Head of Kinsale, a promontory that juts out about six miles to the south-east. The name Kinsale comes from Ceann-saile, the head of the sea. On the Old Head stood an ancient encampment, and on its site stand the ruins of a De Courcy castle. Miles de Courcy, son of the celebrated John de Courcy, married a De Cogan and built a castle on the Old Head. Near Sandy Cove the Ordnance map marks a church in ruins, and the Reverend John H. Hopkins, Rector of Kinsale, described it. He said the church is built of unhewn stone and mortar made from burned shells. The building is oblong, measuring about thirty-five feet by twenty. It was entered by a low narrow door in the western gable, and lighted by slits like those in the staircase of an old castle, two of which remain. The eastern gable is surmounted by a rudely constructed circular arch and slightly bayed; the other is also bayed and surmounted by a flat stone. The ruin is known as the church of Courtmather. Kinsale is one of the oldest corporate towns in Ireland. The preamble of the charter, 7 of Edward III, says the town was surrounded by Irish enemies and English rebels, and that the burgesses had always obeyed the king's orders in repelling the same, who had often, by sea and land, assailed the town. The power of choosing a sovereign or mayor was granted by this charter, for their loyalty.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from The history of the county and city of Cork (vol. 2) (1861), Gibson, Charles Bernard, Internet Archive historyofcountyc02gibsiala, Chapter 256 · source

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Old Red Sandstone denudation at Courtmacsherry

What it said · 256 of 256 words

Coming up near Courtmacsherry. The Old Red Sandstone you can see exposed here, or at the Seven Heads promontory, once lay buried under at least 5,000 feet of Carboniferous Slate. Over that slate, in all probability, sat a considerable depth of Coal Measures, of which a patch survives only sixteen miles distant. Whatever the work done by the agents, the amount of denudation has been enormous. Consider the scale of what is missing. The surface of the ground and the beds of rock never coincide but by accident. The greater surface ridges correspond with the greater anticlinal arches, the valleys with synclinal troughs, yet the ridges are gentle undulations compared with the great folds of the strata. Most of the smaller undulations of the beds do not give rise to surface ridges at all. Sometimes a ridge will even coincide with a synclinal trough. Such is the case with Mount Gabriel near Schull, and with Sheehy Mountain and Milane Hill, both already mentioned as having their upper parts composed of Carboniferous Slate. This is entirely the result of denudation having removed the surrounding country, which once rose on each side higher than those prominences. The rocks in a synclinal curve present their edges to the denuding agent, and this often seems to give them an advantage in resisting it. It is very necessary to realize fully the large amount of denudation that has taken place; otherwise, as the book says, we may be led to form great misconceptions as to various phenomena connected with the rocks.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from A history of the city and county of Cork (1875), Cusack, Mary Francis, 1829-1899, Internet Archive historyofcitycou0000cusa, Chapter 362 · source

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Timoleague Friary

What it said · 165 of 165 words

Close to here stand the ruins of Timoleague Friary, a medieval Franciscan friary on the banks of the Argideen River, overlooking Courtmacsherry Bay. It was built on the site of an early Christian monastic site founded by Saint Molaga, who also gave the town its name. The remains date from around the turn of the fourteenth century. By the mid-seventeenth century it was an important ecclesiastical centre engaged in significant trade with Spain, when British forces burnt it down. It is the largest medieval ruin in West Cork and one of the few early Franciscan friaries in Ireland with substantial ruins still standing. The layout is claustral, built in the Early English Gothic style. It contains elements unusual for Franciscan architecture of the period, including wall passages and exterior access to its upper floor. The friary was altered in the early sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Several historical artefacts are associated with it, and during the Romantic era it was depicted in several notable artworks.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), en.wikipedia.org: Timoleague Friary · source

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Pipes of wine wrecked ashore at Burrin

What it said · 102 of 102 words

Somewhere around here at Burrin, pipes of wine were once cast ashore from a wreck, and a man called Donal claimed them as his right. In those days a wreck was esteemed, in the words of the source, "God's goods," so this was considered very fortunate, and Donal came to be known as Donal-na-pipi from the incident. He later obtained a commission as Captain of Infantry in 1608 in a regiment commanded by Colonel Valentine Brown, and he died in 1612. He had married Margaret, daughter of Sir Thomas Roe Fitzgerald, and among their issue was a son Cormac, who predeceased him.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Kerry Archaeological Magazine (Volume I) (1908), Kerry Archaeological Association, Internet Archive kerryarchaeologicalmagazine, Chapter 176 · source

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Ritual site - holy well, Farrannagark

What it said · 49 of 49 words

The holy well at Farrannagark is right here, beside Burren Bridge. It's covered by a stone-built structure with a lintelled roof, and there's no indication it's still in holy use. Back in 1842, the Ordnance Survey map showed a well of the same name 180 metres to the east.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), CO123-058---- · source

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Ritual site - holy well, Farrannagark

What it said · 33 of 33 words

This holy well is right here at Farrannagark in Cork. A stone-built clochan encloses it, with an internal diameter of 1.7 metres. The well is in good condition and may still be venerated.

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Coolmain Castle

What it said · 159 of 159 words

Right here beside the road is Coolmain Castle, a country house begun in 1792, built over several periods with later additions and wings. The main block is five bays across and two storeys, with a central gablet. Attached to the north is a two-bay two-storey block with a pair of gables, and square-plan crenellated towers in three and four stages. There is a single-bay single-storey crenellated porch on the central block. The roofs are hipped and pitched in slate, with rendered chimneystacks. The towers have rubble stone walls and crenellated parapets in rubble stone. Openings are square-headed and pointed arch. To the south-east are crenellated screen walls and a tower, with related outbuildings on the site. The house combines a regularly proportioned Georgian form, a wing with gables and pointed arch openings, and crenellated towers. It stands overlooking the sea. The inventory calls it a building of much character and diversity that makes the most of its picturesque location.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (CC-BY 4.0), NIAH 20912407 · source

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Ritual site - holy well, Kilmore (Courceys By.)

What it said · 110 of 110 words

Right here is a holy well in woodland at Kilmore, with a gate at the roadside and a path leading to it. The well is a small oval, stone-lined basin under a stone lintel, with a plaque behind it calling it Tober Rí an Domnaig. In the olden days people visited it to cure sore eyes. Local tradition, recorded by Holland in 1908, says the well was formerly located 60 yards west of here. One of the lords of the manor ordered his steward to have the well closed, but the water sprang up again at this spot, and the people continued to pay their rounds at it as before.

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Wreck of the Pholas (SS) (1918)

What it said · 34 of 34 words

Out here at Garretstown Strand is the wreck of the SS Pholas, lost in 1918. The record holds no further detail, so the story of what happened to her is not known to us.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Wreck Inventory of Ireland Database (CC-BY 4.0), WIID W05472 · source

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Barony of Courceys under independent lord de Courcey

What it said · 71 of 71 words

You're passing through the barony of Courceys in County Cork. In the fifteenth century this was a small barony whose lord, de Courcey, claimed independence alike of MacCarthy or Fitzgerald. Nearby Kinsale was one of the few points in the county which in any way acknowledged English rule at that time, making this corner of Cork a place where old loyalties held firm against the great Gaelic and Anglo-Norman houses alike.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society (1892), Cork Historical and Archaeological Society, Internet Archive journalofcorkhisv21896cork, Chapter 210 · source

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Burial, Lispatrick Lower

What it said · 40 of 40 words

Right here at Lispatrick Lower, a storm partly washed away a burial on the cliff edge at Lispatrick Point. In January 1990, three skeletons were found, one on top of another, lying just 0.3 to 0.4 metres below the ground.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), CO137-012---- · source

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Seizure of the Old Head castle from Florence MacCarthy

What it said · 232 of 232 words

Coming up near Old Head in Cork. In 1600 this was a castle Florence MacCarthy possessed, and Sir Henry Power doubted his loyalty. Power wrote to the Lords of the Privy Council on the 30th of April saying that doubt caused him to lay a plot upon the castle called the Old Head, and the plot took effect. He seized it. He then sent 1,000 men into Carbery with directions either to waste it or to take assurance of the freeholders. Captain Flower commanded the expedition and wrote an account showing he carried out in a wholesale and ruthless manner his orders to burn and spoil all such as were revolted from their loyalty. Florence wrote to Cecil on the 6th of May, 1600. He said Captain Bostock and Flower were sent with Her Majesty's forces into Carbery, where they did nothing but burn two castles of his, and kill as many men, women and children as they found in them, and burnt as many villages, houses and corn as appertained to any of his people. He was on his way to Desmond when he heard of this. He sent 200 footmen to give Flower and Bostock some impediment and divert them from going further into the country. With great reluctance he was forced, in defence of his countrymen, to engage in a skirmish with Captain Flower's troops, resulting in severe casualties.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Kerry Archaeological Magazine (Volume I) (1908), Kerry Archaeological Association, Internet Archive kerryarchaeologicalmagazine, Chapter 128 · source

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Ice-flow evidence at Old Head, Louisburgh

What it said · 218 of 218 words

You are coming up on Old Head. Geologists proved that ice once moved from east to west along Clew Bay. The evidence is here: marked rocks on Old Head, Louisburgh, and great blocks of serpentine torn from the north slopes of Croagh Patrick Ridge. Hull was the one who noted the serpentine. So the ice carried stone westward across the bay, leaving its trace on this headland. Clare Island sits at the mouth of the bay, 3949 acres, with the Hill of Knock rising 1520 feet and bold cliffs facing the Atlantic. It is most conveniently visited from Achill Sound. A Cistercian abbey was founded there in 1224, and its remains still hold fragments of fresco paintings and the so-called tomb of Grace O'Malley. There is a coat of arms bearing a boar and the motto of the Royal Marines. The tower of Granuaile Castle, Grace O'Malley's old residence, stands above the harbour on the east. She led her clan and gained the title "Grace of the Heroes." She married first O'Flaherty, Prince of Connemara, and after his death Sir Richard Bourke. Otway records that tradition hands down a singular item of the marriage contract: the marriage was to last for certain but one year, and if at the end of that period either said to the other—

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Black's guide to Galway, Connemara, and the west of Ireland (1912), Adam and Charles Black (Firm), Internet Archive blacksguidetogal00adam, Chapter 36 · source

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Castle - tower house, Downmacpatrick Or Old Head

What it said · 319 of 319 words

Right here beside the road is the tower house at Downmacpatrick, on the Old Head of Kinsale in Cork. It was built by the de Courcey family in the 15th century, though the defences cut into the rock may belong to an earlier promontory fort. The tower stands across a narrow neck of the headland, defended by two lines of fortification about 70 metres apart. The outer line faces inland to the north, a rock-cut fosse with a curtain wall and a central tower house flanked by two mural towers. The inner line faces south, another rock-cut fosse with a slight bank behind it. Both lines are cut through by the modern road leading to the lighthouse. The tower house is three storeys, about 8 and a half metres east to west and 6 metres north to south, standing near full height except the east wall, which survives only to first-floor level. The ground floor door, near the east end of the south wall, is now blocked. A spiral stair in the south-east corner rises from a second door above the ground-floor entrance, giving access to the upper floors and the wall walk. The first floor has a wicker-centred pointed vault running east to west, stopping short of the east wall where the gap was probably covered by lintels. At second-floor level the window embrasures have stone seats. The west wall has no openings, but a mural passage runs through its thickness, linking the wall walks above the north and south walls. The curtain wall is mostly reduced now to a revetment along the fosse, with signs of rebuilding on both sides of the tower. The two mural towers project about 1.2 metres beyond the curtain line. Just inside the curtain, 3 metres from the tower's east wall, a rectangular sunken area faced in stone, about 15 metres by 6, probably marks the remains of a much higher structure.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), CO137-009001- · source

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Fiery dragon's apocalyptic course from Old Head of Kinsale

What it said · 229 of 229 words

Somewhere about Old Head of Kinsale, a prophecy says a fiery dragon will begin its course here at Dun Cearmna. The story comes from Leabhar Mor Duna Doighre, translated by O'Curry. A dragon was caught in the shape of a salmon by Ternog's nurse, and St. Fursa induced her to throw it into Loch Bel Sead, the lake of the jewel mouth, also called Loch Bel Dragain, the dragon mouth lake. That lake is now called Lough Muskry, in the old territory of Muscraidhe Ui Chuirc. According to the legend, the lake itself originated when a harper named Cliach stood so long on one spot that the ground burst under his feet. The old name of the Galtee mountains is Crotta Cliach, the harps of Cliach. The dragon will come in the festival of St. John, near the end of the world, in the reign of Flann Cinaidh. Out of it shall grow the Fiery Bolt which will kill three-fourths of the people of the world. The dragon will begin his course at Dun Cearmna, the Old Head of Kinsale, and flash as far as Sruibh Brain, or Lough Foyle. The reign of Flann Cinaidh, whose name means voracious, will be a momentous one for Cork, for during it also will come the broom out of Fanait, in Donegal, which will bring direful woe to the people of Cork.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society (1892), Cork Historical and Archaeological Society, Internet Archive journalofcorkhisv21896cork, Chapter 52 · source

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Ice-flow evidence at Old Head, Louisburgh

What it said · 150 of 217 words

As the road takes you past Old Head, near Louisburgh, the rocks here carry a story geologists read in stone. They found marked rocks on this headland proving the ice-flow moved from east to west along Clew Bay. Great blocks of serpentine lie among them, torn from the north slopes of Croagh Patrick Ridge, as Hull noted. Out at the mouth of the bay lies Clare Island, 3949 acres, with the Hill of Knock rising 1520 feet and bold cliffs facing the Atlantic. The island is most easily reached from Achill Sound. A Cistercian Abbey was founded there in 1224, and its remains still hold fragments of fresco paintings and the so-called tomb of Grace O'Malley. A coat of arms bears a boar and a motto matching that of the Royal Marines. Above the harbour on the east stands the tower of Granuaile Castle, the old residence of Grace O'Malley. She became leader of her clan and earned the title Grace of the Heroes. She was first married to O'Flaherty, Prince of Connemara, and after his death to Sir Richard Bourke. Otway records that tradition hands down a singular item of the marriage contract. The marriage was to last for certain but one year, and if at the end of that period either said to the other

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Guide to Galway, Connemara and the West of Ireland (1912), Lang, Robert Turnbull, 1870-, Internet Archive guidetogalwaycon00lang, Chapter 37 · source

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Overcrowded Graves and Exposed Bodies at Old Head

What it said · 282 of 282 words

Somewhere around here, close to Old Head, a company entered a churchyard and set down a white coffin. They waited for the widow of the deceased to bring a spade to open the grave. While the dirt was being taken away, she sat down, leaning upon the coffin, setting up the Irish wail in the most pathetic manner. She rehearsed his good qualities by snatches. Then she burst into a gush of tears. Then she commenced again in Irish, because, as she said, meager English has no words to express the height of grief, madness, or joy. The ground was opened but a few inches when the coffin of another was touched. The graveyards are everywhere filled so near the surface that dogs have access, and some parts of the body are often exposed. A holy well near this place once drew the sick. Invalids went there to be healed. It is now surrounded with stone and covered with earth. A path shows the trodden impress of many a knee. Devotees went round seven times, repeating a Paternoster at every revolution, and dropped a stone to show the duty was performed. A hole in a stone was shown where St. Patrick knelt till he wore the stone away. A poor peasant girl, in the simplicity of her heart, explained all the ceremonies and virtues of the well, regretting that the priests had forbidden the practice. A debate was now in progress about good works and the importance of being baptized into the true church. Mrs. G., who professed to be a papist, disputed the ground with them until the contest became so sharp that the narrator retired, for their darkness was painful.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Annals of the Famine in Ireland (1851), Asenath Nicholson, Project Gutenberg #annalsfamineini00nichgoog, Chapter 16 · source

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Miles de Courcy overthrew Florence MacCarthy More near Ringroane

What it said · 37 of 37 words

Somewhere close to Ringrone, Miles de Courcy, Baron of Kingsale, overthrew Florence MacCarthy More and a great army of his followers in battle. He drove the fleeing forces into the Bandon river, where many of them drowned.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from A history of the city and county of Cork (1875), Cusack, Mary Francis, 1829-1899, Internet Archive historyofcitycou0000cusa, Chapter 139 · source

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Castle - tower house, Castlelands (Kinsale By.)

What it said · 107 of 107 words

Right here at Castlelands in Cork stands the remains of a tower house built by the de Courcey family, on a slight rise overlooking the Bandon river. Only the west wall and a short return of the north wall survive, standing to second floor level. You can see skewbacks for vaults over the ground and second floors, a doorway at the west end of the north wall, a flat-headed window in the west wall at first floor level, and a wall press at second floor. In Grose's early 19th century depiction the castle was already ruinous, shown with a pointed arch doorway and three storeys above it.

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Ritual site - holy well, Castlelands (Kinsale By.)

What it said · 38 of 38 words

Right here at Castlelands, near Kinsale, there's a holy well sitting on a north-facing slope in pasture. It's enclosed by a brick wall and is now used as a cattle trough. The ruins of Ringrone castle stand nearby.

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Battle of Kinsale, Irish defeat

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As you come near Kinsale, you are approaching the site of the greatest Irish defeat of 1601. The Spanish commander Don Juan Del Aguila, besieged here, wrote pressingly to the Irish leaders O'Neill and O'Donnell, entreating them to come to his assistance at once. O'Neill and O'Donnell differed on whether to attack the English camp, but O'Donnell believed they were bound to accede, and an immediate attack was resolved on. By the treachery of Brian MacHugh Oge MacMahon, the English commander Carew was warned of the onslaught. On the night of the 23rd the Irish set out in three divisions, with Tyrrell commanding the van, O'Neill the centre, and O'Donnell the rear. The guides missed their way, and after wandering through the night O'Neill found himself separated from O'Donnell at the very entrenchments of the English, who were fully prepared. As O'Neill was preparing either to retreat or put his men in order of battle, the English cavalry charged their broken lines. The Irish made stout resistance and the Spaniards fought gallantly, but O'Neill's command were cut down or compelled to retreat. O'Donnell came at last and repulsed the English wing, but O'Neill's efforts to rally his flying troops came to nothing. Nearly a thousand of the Irish fell, and the prisoners were immediately hung. Three days after the battle, Red Hugh O'Donnell sailed in a Spanish ship from Castlehaven for Spain, where he was received with the greatest honors. O'Neill returned to Ulster. The Spaniards capitulated, marching out with colors flying, and with arms, ammunition, and all their property. Don Juan, suspected by the Irish of treachery, probably owing to a friendship that suddenly sprang up between him and Sir George Carew, was placed under arrest and died of grief.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Limerick, its history and antiquities; ecclesiastical, civil, and military,from the earliest ages, with copious historical, archaeological, topographical, and genealogical notes (1884), Lenihan, Maurice, 1811-1895, Internet Archive limerickitshisto00leni, Chapter 71 · source

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Cromwell hands Kinsale keys to Colonel Stubber

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As you come through Kinsale in Cork, the town carries a story from 1650. Cromwell visited and was handed the keys of the town. He did not return them to the chief magistrate, who was a Catholic, as was customary. Instead he handed them to Colonel Stubber, the governor. Someone whispered in his ear that Stubber was not over strict in any religion. "May be not," replied Cromwell, "but as he is a soldier he has honor, and, therefore, we will let his religion alone this time." After this, Cromwell left Youghal on the 29th of January, 1650, and turned north. He wrote to the Speaker from Castletown in Limerick on the 15th of February, 1650: "Having refreshed our men in winter quarters, and health being pretty well recovered, we thought fit to take the field, and to attempt such things as God, by his providence, should lead us to upon the enemy." He crossed the Blackwater at Mallow and pressed on to the county of Limerick, having dispatched Broghill to besiege Castletownroche. Broghill drew two cannon to the castle and summoned it. They refused. After about ten shots their stomachs came down. He gave the soldiers quarter for life and shot six officers to death. Cromwell said nothing of Lady Roche, who had defended the castle in her lord's absence.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from The history of the county and city of Cork (vol. 2) (1861), Gibson, Charles Bernard, Internet Archive historyofcountyc02gibsiala, Chapter 59 · source

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Kinsale surrenders to Spanish forces

What it said · 110 of 110 words

Up ahead is Kinsale, the town the road is passing through. In 1601 it surrendered at discretion to a Spanish expedition under Don Juan, who issued a proclamation to reassure the inhabitants. The English council at Kilkenny was already debating what to do if the Spaniards arrived, and the news caught them off guard. Some wanted to retire to Dublin to collect forces, while others argued for marching straight to the scene; they chose the latter, and the Lord Deputy and Sir Robert Gardiner set out for Cork that night. A despatch was sent to O'Neil, but it would be two full months before he could join the Spanish army.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from A history of the city and county of Cork (1875), Cusack, Mary Francis, 1829-1899, Internet Archive historyofcitycou0000cusa, Chapter 250 · source

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Burial ground, Ballynacubby

What it said · 32 of 86 words

Right here at Ballynacubby in Cork, a burial ground came to light in 1978 when a housing estate was being built just outside the west side of Kinsale's town walls. About 40 skeletons lay in separate grave pits, roughly half a metre down, laid out east to west in clear rows. No coffins were used; arms were extended with hands crossed over the genital region. No church or associated structures were found. A ring on one finger dates the site to the 16th or 17th century.

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Wild Atlantic Way 8/8 Haven Coast: Kenmare → Kinsale

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Beggars' rents collected at old entrance to Kerry

St. Brendan's Well Patterns at Tubbrid, Ardfert

Dinish Island: O'Sullivan's Punch Bowl and the name's origin

Children's burial ground, Feoramore

Lakes of Clonee - angling and scenery

Children's burial ground, Cloonee

Ardea Castle ruin and the Killarney prophecy

Children's burial ground, Garranes (Glanarought By., Ardea Ed)

Children's burial ground, Fehanagh

Pit-burial, Cashelkeelty

Children's burial ground, Collorus

Shelter bays of the Kenmare coast

garda station/constabulary barracks, Eyeries

Children's burial ground, Eyeries

Burial ground, Coulagh

Burial ground, Caherkeen

Mass-rock, Caherkeen

Children's burial ground, Reentrusk

Children's burial ground, Reentrusk

Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb, Allihies

Copper mines at Allihies in Berehaven

Burial ground, Ballydonegan

Desmond's body interred at Kilnamanagh chapel

Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb, Killough East

Burial ground, Killough West

Burial ground, Kilkinnikin East

Burial ground, Loughane Beg

Children's burial ground, Knockroe Middle

Burial ground, Garranes (Bear By.)

Dunboy Castle

Siege of Dunboy

Ritual site - holy well, Curradonohoe

Mogh Nuadhat names Bearhaven after his Spanish wife

Morty Oge O'Sullivan shoots Mr. Puxley at Dunboy

Castletown Bearhaven and Bear Island fortifications

Burial ground, Derrymihin West

Mass-rock, Derrymihin East

Children's burial ground, Felane West

Burial ground, Thornhill

Mass-rock, Ardagannive

Mass-rock, Bank

Curragh castle near Kanturk and Neptune Blood's house

Cataract of Adrigoll

Adrigole Garda Síochána Station

Burial ground, Ballynakilla (Barrymore By., Ballycurrany Par.)

Lord Dunraven's house on Garinish Island

Glengarriff House Hotel

Megalithic tomb - unclassified, Ardaturrish More

Ice crossing Bantry Bay to Whiddy Island and Dunnamark

Ballylicky Bridge road junction

Reendisert Court

Ballylicky ford of the flag-stone

St. Cannera of Bantry and her vision of fiery towers

Burning of O'Sullivan Beare's house and massacre at Bantry

The desperate defence at Bantry/Glengarriff

Burial ground, Kilnaruane

Burial ground, Abbey

Mass-rock, Beach

Franciscan abbey ruins near Bantry

Castle - tower house, Rossmore (Carbery West (W.D) By.)

Tullig break maintained for Duhallow Hunt

Burial ground, Rosskerrig

Seefin mountain summit panorama

signal tower, Dromnea

Ritual site - holy well, Dromnea

Castle - tower house, Farranamanagh

O'Mahony territory in West Carbery

The floating islands beneath the angel's footmark

Mount Gabriel lake legend

Workhouse, Cooradarrigan

Mass-rock, Cooradarrigan

Schull parish overwhelmingly Catholic, no Bible

Belief in miraculous cures from the priest's grave clay at Skull

Religious Demography of Skull Parish

Megalithic tomb - unclassified, Gubbeen

Burial ground, Kilpatrick (Carbery West (W.D) By.)